Hemiptera Heteroptera of Guam
Author
Usinger, Robert L.
text
1946
1946-12-20
Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Bulletin 189
Honolulu, Hawaii
Insects of Guam II
11
103
book chapter
http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5173934
e7ce9dca-1d2b-4aad-8471-7ea2c177da53
5173934
89.
Limnogonus luctuosus
(Montrouzier)
.
Gerris luctuosa
Montrouzier, Soc. Linn. Lyon, Ann.
(n. s.)
11:
242, 1864.
Three macropterous females, Agana Swamp, May 4, Usinger. These are slightly smaller,
7.75
mm
., than female examples from Tahiti and have the yellow lateral lines of the sides of the mesothorax as in Lundblad's
figure 2
,
b
(B. P. Bishop Mus., Bull.
113:
124, 1934), but not constricted near the middle and with the truncated end connected at its upper angle to an additional pale spot behind the black-rimmed spiracular slit. In other respects these
Guam
specimens agree with Lundblad's revised description (Arch. Hydrobiol., Suppl. 12:380, 1933). Known elsewhere from
New Caledonia
,
New Hebrides
,
Samoa
, Tahiti, Raiatea, Murray, and
Caroline Islands
.