The water striders of Pakistan (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Gerridae): new records from Punjab and first checklist for the country Author Cianferoni, Fabio National Research Council of Italy, Research Institute on Terrestrial Ecosystems (CNR-IRET), Via Madonna del Piano 10, I- 50019 Sesto Fiorentino (Florence), Italy. & University of Florence, Natural History Museum, “ La Specola ”, Zoology, Via Romana 17, I- 50125 Florence, Italy. Author Saleem, Rukhshanda 0000-0001-5291-2843 University of Gujrat, Department of Zoology, Hafiz Hayat Campus, Jalalpur Jattan Road, Gujrat, Punjab 50700, Pakistan. sumera. afsheen @ uog. edu. pk; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 5291 - 2843 & University of Sialkot, 1 - km Main Daska Road, Sialkot, Punjab 51310, Pakistan. sumera.afsheen@uog.edu.pk Author Afsheen, Sumera 0000-0001-5291-2843 University of Gujrat, Department of Zoology, Hafiz Hayat Campus, Jalalpur Jattan Road, Gujrat, Punjab 50700, Pakistan. sumera. afsheen @ uog. edu. pk; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 5291 - 2843 sumera.afsheen@uog.edu.pk Author Zia, Ahmed NARC-National Agricultural Research Centre, Park Road, Islamabad 44000, Pakistan. text Zootaxa 2021 2021-07-06 4996 3 469 491 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.4996.3.3 1175-5326 5074713 205E48E2-AA8C-488D-81CB-46AF357FA60B Neogerris parvulus ( Stål, 1859 ) Gerris parvula Stål 1859: 265 . Limnogonus parvulus: Stål 1868: 133 .— Pakistan : Hafiz & Ribeiro (1939: 428 , Punjab Province , Lahore District, Lahore). Gerris tristan Kirkaldy 1899: 88 . Syn. Lundblad 1933: 385 .— Pakistan : Pruthi (1933: 102 , Punjab Province , Jhelum District, Chalisa). Gerris ysolt Breddin 1905: 130 . Syn. Lundblad 1933: 385 . Limnogonus (Limnogonellus) parvulus: Hungerford & Matsuda 1959: 40 . Limnogonus (Neogerris) parvulus: Hungerford & Matsuda 1961: 114 . Neogerris parvula: Andersen 1975: 86 . Material examined. PAKISTAN . Punjab Province . Lahore District : Shahdara Pltn., 24.XI.[19]30, leg. B.M. Bhatia , 1 ♂ , det. F. Cianferoni 2020 ( NMPC ) . General distribution. This species occurs from the Arabian Peninsula through Iran , Pakistan , India , China , southern Japanese islands, and Southeast Asia to the Australasian Region (although material from east of Wallace’s Line could refer to other taxa; see Damgaard et al. 2014 ). Remarks. This species was recorded in Pakistan from Punjab by Pruthi (1933) and Hafiz & Ribeiro (1939) (see list above for further detail).