Limnogonus nitidus (Mayr, 1865)

Pelingen, Arthien Lovell, Zettel, Herbert, Pangantihon, Clister V, Aldaba, Kyra Mari Dominique, Fatallo, Earl Kevin, de Leon, Jemillie Madonna & Freitag, Hendrik, 2020, Contributions to the knowledge of water bugs in Mindoro Island, Philippines, with a species checklist of Nepomorpha and Gerromorpha (Insecta, Hemiptera, Heteroptera), Biodiversity Data Journal 8, pp. 56883-56883 : 56883

Limnogonus nitidus (Mayr, 1865)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 3 males (ap), 4 males (ma); Taxon: scientificName: Limnogonusnitidus; Location: island: Mindoro; country: Philippines; municipality: Roxas; locationRemarks: HBCy; Event: eventDate: 08.07.2017

Distribution

The species (Fig. 9 A) is widespread in the Philippines, Maldives, India, Sri Lanka, southern China and Indonesia ( Damgaard et al. 2014), with the first records from Cambodia recently documented by Zettel et al. (2017). See Fig. 8 for our additional records.

Taxon discussion

Refer to Cheng et al. (2001) for the identification.

Habitat

In the Oriental realm, most species of Limnogonus Stål, 1868 prefer sheltered places in standing waters, which makes them somewhat gregarious. Limnogonus nitidus (Mayr, 1865) (see Mayr 1865) and L. fossarum (Fabricius, 1775) (see Fabricius 1775) are probably the only Oriental species of the genus that successfully colonise intermittent habitats.

Figures

Figure 8. Distribution of the collecting sites of Gerromorpha material (part 2) treated in this study.

Figure 9. Selected habitus illustrations of Gerromorpha of Mindoro A. Limnogonus nitidus; B. Limnometra nigripennis nigripennis; C. Tenagogonus sp. (mutilated specimen); D. Rheumatogonus luzonicus; E. Metrocoris tenuicornis. Scale bars 10 mm.