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Issue: Vol. 1467 No. 1: 7 May. 2007
Type: Articles
Published: 2007-05-07
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1467.1.4
Page range: 43–49
Abstract views: 39
PDF downloaded: 2

On Gerridae (Insecta: Heteroptera) from Bhutan, with description of a new  species of Onychotrechus Kirkaldy, 1903

Herbert Zettel, Natural History Museum Vienna, International Research Institute of Entomology, Burgring 7, A-1010 Vienna, Austria
Tran Anh Duc, Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, 14 Science Drive 4, Singapore 117543
Insecta Heteroptera Gerridae Onychotrechus new species first record Bhutan check-list

Abstract

Hitherto the water striders (Gerridae) of Bhutan have been almost unknown. Only one species, Metrocoris compar (Buchanan-White, 1883), has been reported. Mainly based on new collections, the present study raises the number of known species to nine. Onychotrechus jaechi sp.n. is described; it is closely related to O. robustus Andersen, 1980 described from northwestern India.

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