Water bugs (Hemipera: Heteroptera: Nepomorpha & Gerromorpha) of Chile phylogenetic and biogeographic considerations, and a catalog of the fauna Author Damgaard, Jakob Zoological Museum, Natural History Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark. Author Moreira, Felipe Ferraz Figueiredo 0000-0002-6692-0323 Laboratório de Biodiversidade Entomológica, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil. ppmeiameiameia @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 6692 - 0323 ppmeiameiameia@gmail.com text Zootaxa 2021 2021-04-14 4958 1 45 71 journal article 7181 10.11646/zootaxa.4958.1.6 e820ab38-e6b9-4a10-b0e2-f7577ad62014 1175-5326 4693036 40FBD1B2-39EC-425F-9082-C7618E9CA7EE Halobates micans Eschscholtz, 1822 Halobates micans Eschscholtz, 1822: 107 .—ST: @, southern Pacific Ocean and southern Atlantic Ocean; IZBE. Halobates streatfieldana Templeton, 1836: 230 (syn. Herring 1961: 246 ).—ST: @, Atlantic Ocean; repository unknown. Halobates wullerstorffi von Frauenfeld, 1867: 458 (syn. Dahl 1893: 6 ).—ST: #, @, Brazil , off Cape Frio near Rio de Janeiro ; NHMW. Halobates inermis Dahl, 1893: 6 (syn. Schadow 1922: 1 ).—HT: @, Atlantic Ocean; repository unknown. Distribution. Atlantic Ocean, including Caribbean Sea, between 40° N and 40° S , with few records out of these latitudes; Indian Ocean between 20° N and 30– 40° S ; western Pacific Ocean between 30° N and 20– 25° S ; central and eastern Pacific Ocean between 35° N and 20° S , with few records out of these latitudes. American Samoa ; Antigua & Barbuda ; Argentina ; Aruba ; Australia ; Azores Arch. ; Bahamas ; Barbados ; Bermuda ; Brazil ; Cameroon ; Canary Is. ; Cape Verde Is. ; Cayman Is. ; Chile ; China ; Clipperton Is. ; Colombia ; Cook Is. ; Cuba ; Ecuador (including Galapagos Is.); Egypt ; French Guiana ; French Polynesia ; Guadeloupe ; India ; Indonesia ; Japan ; Kiribati ; Juan de Nova Is. ; Madagascar ; Madeira Arch. ; Maldives ; Marquesas Is. ; Marshall Is. ; Martinique ; Mauritania ; Mauritius ; Mexico ; Micronesia ; Myanmar ; Palau ; Panama ; Papua New Guinea ; Philippines ; Seychelles (Aldabra Atoll, Cosmoledo Atoll); Solomon Is. ; Somalia ; Spain ; Sri Lanka ; St. Helena Is. ; St. Vincent & Grenadines ; Taiwan ; Trinidad & Tobago ; Uruguay ; U. S. A. ; U. S. Virgin Is. ; Vietnam ( Román-Palacios et al. 2020 ).