Review of West-Palaearctic Hebridae with description of a new species and redescription of Hebrus fulvinervis (Hemiptera: Heteroptera)
Author
Kment, Petr
Author
Jindra, Zdeněk
Author
Berchi, Gavril Marius
text
Zootaxa
2016
4147
3
201
239
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4147.3.1
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1175-5326
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Merragata hebroides
White, 1877
Merragata hebroides
White, 1877
: 114
.
Syntype
(s):
♀
,
Hawaii
Islands,
Oahu
(
BMNH
).
Merragata foveata
Drake, 1917
: 103
.
Synonymized
by
Blatchley
(1926: 610)
.
Holotype
:
USA
,
Ohio
,
Summit Co.
,
Ira
(
USNM
).
Merragata slossoni
Van
Duzee, 1921
: 133
. Synonymized by
Drake (1952: 194)
.
Holotype
:
♂
,
USA
,
Florida
,
Biscayne Bay
(
CASC
)
.
Merragata lindbergi
Poisson, 1954a
: 2
. Synonymized by
Drake & Chapman (1958: 319, listed)
and
Drake & Cobben (1960: 36)
.
Syntypes
:
2 ♂
4 ♀
,
Canary Islands
, Tenerife,
Puerto de
San Juan
(
MZHF
)
.
Material
examined.
CANARY ISLANDS
:
Gran Canaria
:
Maspalomas
, 282-120, sand dunes, water,
3.viii.2003
,
3 ♀
,
M. Mantič
lgt. (
2 ♀
NMPC
,
1 ♀
MMHC
).
Distribution.
North
Africa:
Canary Islands
(
Poisson 1954a
,
b
;
Aukema
et al.
2013b
).
Nearctic
and
Neotropical
Region
:
From southern
Canada
to
Argentina
(except
Chile
),
West
Indies and Netherland Antilles (
Drake 1917
,
Blatchley 1926
,
Drake & Chapman 1958
,
Drake & Cobben 1960
,
Polhemus & Polhemus 1988
).
Hawaiian Islands
(
White 1877
).
The distribution in
Cape Verde
Islands
(
Drake & Chapman 1958
) is an apparent error for
Canary Islands
, which were not listed by those authors.
Comment.
The synonym
Merragata lindbergi
was described according to 2 male and 4 female syntypes deposited in MZHF. However, in the collection of NMPC there is deposited also one female ‘paratype’ of
M. lindbergi
(see
Kment & Kolínová 2013
). Most probably there are the same problems with redundant types as in
H. pusillus canariensis
(see Comment on p. 15) but we did not receive the detailed information from L. Huldén to be provided here.