Original scientific paper
Check-list of water bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Nepomorpha) in Croatia with two new records and four rediscoveries
Petr Kment
orcid.org/0000-0002-7026-5691
; Department of Entomology, National Museum, Kunratice 1, CZ-148 00 Praha 4, Czech Republic
Luboš Beran
; Agency for Nature Conservation and Landscape Protection of the Czech Republic, Kokorínsko Protected Landscape Area Administration, Česká 149, CZ-276 01 Melník, Czech Republic
Abstract
An updated check-list of the aquatic and semi-aquatic bugs of Croatia is provided. Altogether, we list 14 families and 59 species (Nepidae – 2, Belostomatidae – 1, Ochteridae – 1, Micronectidae – 2, Corixidae – 21, Naucoridae – 1, Aphelocheiridae – 1, Notonectidae – 7, Pleidae – 1, Mesoveliidae – 2, Hebridae – 2, Hydrometridae – 1, Veliidae – 7, Gerridae – 10). However, for 11 of the listed species no exact locality record has ever been published. Five species, Micronecta minutissima (Linnaeus, 1758), Velia caprai Tamanini, 1947, Velia rivulorum (Fabricius, 1775), Velia saulii Tamanini, 1947, and Limnoporus rufoscutellatus (Latreille, 1807) are omitted from the list for the time being due to the lack of reliable records. Based on an examination of new material, we provide two new records for Croatia – Corixa panzeri Fieber, 1848 and Sigara semistriata (Fieber, 1848), first exact records of Hesperocorixa linnaei (Fieber, 1848) and Notonecta meridionalis Poisson, 1926, as well as new findings of Aphelocheirus aestivalis (Fabricius, 1803) and Anisops sardeus sardeus Herrich-Schaeffer, 1843 not recorded from Croatia for many decades.
Keywords
Heteroptera; Nepomorpha; Aphelocheiridae; Corixidae; Notonectidae; Gerromorpha; check-list; Croatia
Hrčak ID:
69903
URI
Publication date:
30.6.2011.
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