Checklist, distribution, and a new record of Nepomorphan water bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) in northern Tunisia
Author
Slimani, Noura
Author
Moulet, Pierre
Author
Chen, Ping-Ping
Author
Nieser, Nico
Author
Pluot-Sigwalt, Dominique
Author
Boumaïza, Moncef
Author
Guilbert, Eric
text
Zootaxa
2015
3981
2
151
176
journal article
39985
10.11646/zootaxa.3981.2.1
b8c1fe54-7d0e-4f96-a21e-76410d8f0270
1175-5326
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5E714DAC-15F2-46DA-AE2E-F74B2513D558
Notonecta maculata
(Fabricius)
(
Fig. 8A
)
Material examined.
Station 4,
24
-iv-2013,
2
♂;
22-v-2013
,
1♂
1♀;
28-vi-2013
,
1♂
2♀;
18-vii-2013
,
2♂
;
21-viii- 2013
,
1♂
;
04-ix-2013
,
1♂
1♀;
30-x-2013
,
1♂
; station 8,
25
-iv-2013,
1
♂1♀;
29-vi-2013
,
1♂
1♀;
25-vii-2013
, 1♀; station 12,
28
-i-2013,
1
♂1♀;
26-ii-2013
,
2♂
;
26-iii-2013
,
1♂
2♀;
23-iv-
2013,1♂1♀;
21-v-2013
,
2♂
;
27-vi-2013
,
3♂
1♀;
17-vii-2013
, 3♀;
20-viii-2013
,
2♂
;
03-ix-2013
,
3♂
1♀;
30-x-2013
,
2♂
;
26-xii-2013
,
2♂
; station 17,
23
-iv- 2013,
1
♂1♀;
21-v-2013
,
1♂
; station 19,
28
-vi-2013,
1
♂;
18-vii-2013
,
1♂
; station 22,
21
-v-2013,
4
♂;
27-vi-2013
,
2♂
1♀;
17-vii-2013
,
3♂
;
20-viii-2013
,
2♂
1♀;
03-ix-2013
,
2♂
2♀; station 26,
21
-v-2013,
2
♂1♀;
27-vi-2013
,
2♂
3♀;
17-vii-2013
,
1♂
;
20-viii-2013
,
4♂
1♀;
03-ix-2013
,
1♂
1♀;
30-x-2013
,
2♂
1♀; station 28,
25
-iv-2013,
2
♂1♀; station 29,
25
-iv-2013,
1
♂1♀;
24-v-2013
,
1♂
1♀;
29-vi-2013
,
2♂
;
25-vii-2013
,
2♂
2♀;
22-viii-2013
, 1♀;
29-x-2013
,
1♂
; station 31,
30
-i-2013,
1
♂;
28-ii-2013
,
1♂
;
29-vi-2013
,
1♂
;
25-iv-2013
,
1♂
1♀;
23-v-2013
, 1♀;
25- vii-2013
, 1♀; station 32,
25
-iv-2013,
2
♂1♀;
23-v-2013
,
1♂
;
25-vii-2013
,
1♂
1♀;
22-viii-2013
,
2♂
2♀;
05-ix-2013
,
1♂
;
29-x-2013
,
1♂
1♀; station 36,
29
-i-2013,
2
♂;
27-ii-2013
,
2♂
;
24-iv-2013
,
2♂
1♀;
22-v-2013
,
1♂
;
28-vi-2013
,
1♂
2♀;
24-vii-2013
,
2♂
1♀;
21-viii-2013
, 1♀;
04-ix-2013
,
2♂
; station 43,
22
-iv-2013,
1
♂;
20-v-2013
,
2♂
;
26-vi- 2013
,
1♂
2♀;
16-vii-2013
,
1♂
1♀;
19-viii-2013
,
2♂
2♀;
26-xi-2013
, 1♀; station 44,
27
-i-2013,
1
♂;
25-ii-2013
,
2♂
;
25-iii-2013
, 2♀;
22-iv-2013
,
1♂
1♀;
20-v-2013
,
1♂
2♀;
26-vi-2013
,
3♂
1♀;
16-vii-2013
,
2♂
2♀;
19-viii-2013
,
2♂
2♀;
02-ix-2013
,
3♂
2♀;
31-x-2013
,
1♂
1♀;
25-xii-2013
,
1♂
; station 45,
25
-iii-2013,
1
♂1♀;
22-iv-2013
,
2♂
3♀;
20-v-2013
,
3♂
2♀;
26-vi-2013
,
1♂
2♀;
16-vii-2013
,
2♂
2♀;
19-viii-2013
, 1♀;
02-ix-2013
,
1♂
♀; station 46,
16
-vii- 2013,
2
♂;
25-xii-2013
, 1♀; station 47,
27
-i-2013, 2♀;
25-ii-2013
,
2♂
2♀;
25-iii-2013
,
2♂
1♀; station 48,
30
-i- 2013, 2♀;
28-ii-2013
, 2♀;
28-iii-2013
,
2♂
1♀;
23-v-2013
,
2♂
3♀;
29-vi-2013
,
3♂
2♀;
19-vii-2013
,
2♂
3♀;
22-viii- 2013
,
1♂
1♀;
05-ix-2013
,
3♂
2♀;
30-xi-
2013,1♂.
Comments.
This species is abundant and widespread in
Tunisia
. Specimens were collected in springtime, in temporal or permanent streams, with abundant riparian vegetation. It was first recorded from
Tunisia
by
Horváth (1906)
under the name of
Notonecta glauca
L. var.
maculate
Fabricius
in Oued Melina.
Distribution.
It occurs in Palearctic region (Polhemus 1995;
Carapezza 1997
;
Fent
et al.
2011
).