New Records of Aquatic and Semi-Aquatic Heteroptera (Insecta: Hemiptera) from Mainland India

Authors

  • E. Eyarin Jehamalar
     Zoological Survey of India, M Block, New Alipore, Kolkata - 700053
  • Kailash Chandra
     Zoological Survey of India, M Block, New Alipore, Kolkata - 700053

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v120/i2/2020/146065

Keywords:

First Records, Gerridae, Hydrometridae, Meghalaya, Notonectidae, Taxonomy, Veliidae, Water Bugs.

Abstract

Four species of the aquatic and semi-aquatic Hemiptera such as Anisops occipitalis Breddin (1905), Hydrometra okinawana Drake (1951), Neoalardus typicus (Distant, 1903) and Limnometra ciliata Mayr (1865), of families Notonectidae, Hydrometridae, Veliidae and Gerridae respectively, are the first records from mainland India and were collected from different districts of Meghalaya. The recorded species are very rare and have been collected from a single locality.

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Author Biographies

E. Eyarin Jehamalar, Zoological Survey of India, M Block, New Alipore, Kolkata - 700053

Zoological Survey of India, HQ, Kolkata

Post-Doctoral Fellow

 

Kailash Chandra, Zoological Survey of India, M Block, New Alipore, Kolkata - 700053

Zoological Survey of India,

Director

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2020-06-30

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Eyarin Jehamalar, E., & Chandra, K. (2020). New Records of Aquatic and Semi-Aquatic Heteroptera (Insecta: Hemiptera) from Mainland India. Records of the Zoological Survey of India, 120(2), 167–170. https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v120/i2/2020/146065

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