Checklist, distribution, and a new record of Nepomorphan water bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) in northern Tunisia
Author
Slimani, Noura
Author
Moulet, Pierre
Author
Chen, Ping-Ping
Author
Nieser, Nico
Author
Pluot-Sigwalt, Dominique
Author
Boumaïza, Moncef
Author
Guilbert, Eric
text
Zootaxa
2015
3981
2
151
176
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3981.2.1
b8c1fe54-7d0e-4f96-a21e-76410d8f0270
1175-5326
239818
5E714DAC-15F2-46DA-AE2E-F74B2513D558
Hesperocorixa furtiva
(Horvath)
(
Fig. 4A
)
Material examined.
Station 18,
25
-vi-2013,
1
♂.
Comments.
A single specimen was collected in a shaded mountain stream above
66 m
asl, with clear water and a stony bottom. The first record for
Tunisia
is from
Lambertie (1907)
in northern
Tunisia
(Aïn Draham, Jendouba).
Distribution.
It is a Maghrebin species extending to southern
Spain
(
Jansson 1986
;
Carapezza 1997
;
Poisson 1957
).