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Issue: Vol. 3980 No. 4: 1 Jul. 2015
Type: Article
Published: 2015-07-01
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3980.4.8
Page range: 584–590
Abstract views: 25
PDF downloaded: 1

Review of Hydrometra gracilenta Horváth, 1899 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Hydrometridae) in Italy, with notes on its general distribution

Natural History Museum of the University of Florence, Zoological Section “La Specola”, via Romana 17, I-50125, Florence, Italy. Institute of Agroenvironmental and Forest Biology, CNR - National Research Council of Italy, via Salaria km 29.300, I-00015, Monterotondo Scalo (Rome), Italy
Department of Biology, Laboratory of Plant Systematics and Phytogeography, University of Florence, via La Pira 4, I-50121, Florence, Italy
Department of Biology, Laboratory of Plant Systematics and Phytogeography, University of Florence, via La Pira 4, I-50121, Florence, Italy
Heteroptera Gerromorpha Hydrometra Hydrometra gracilenta Italy Egypt Sudan Rwanda distribution new records

Abstract

An annotated review of the known Italian distribution of Hydrometra gracilenta Horváth, 1899 is provided, plus unpublished data including a new record which increases the previously known range of the species in Italy. An updated map shows the currently known distribution of the taxon in Italy. An overlooked nomenclatural change is discussed, and the date of description for the genus Hydrometra Lateille is corrected from 1796 to 1797. The presence of H. gracilenta is excluded from Egypt, Sudan, and Rwanda.