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Issue: Vol. 4433 No. 3: 13 Jun. 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-06-13
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4433.3.6
Page range: 491–519
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Water striders (Heteroptera: Gerromorpha: Gerridae) of Romania with an update on the distribution of Gerris gibbifer and G. maculatus in southeastern Europe

Department of Taxonomy & Ecology, Faculty of Biology & Geology, Babeş-Bolyai University, RO-400015, 5–7 Clinicilor Street, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
Natural History Museum of the University of Florence, Zoological Section “La Specola”, I-50125, Via Romana 17, Florence, Italy. Institute of Agroenvironmental and Forest Biology, CNR—National Research Council of Italy, Via Salaria km 29.300, I-00015, Monterotondo (Rome), Italy
Department of Hydrobiology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Pécs, Ifjúság útja 6, H-7624 Pécs, Hungary.
Zoological Museum, Natural History Museum of Denmark, Universitetsparken 15, 2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark.
Department of Hydrobiology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Pécs, Ifjúság útja 6, H-7624 Pécs, Hungary.
Applied Ecology Research Center, Faculty of Sciences, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, RO-550012, 5-7 Ion Raţiu Street, Sibiu, Romania.
MTA Centre for Ecological Research, Danube Research Institute, Department of Tisza Research, Bem tér 18/c, H-4026 Debrecen, Hungary.
Department of Entomology, National Museum, Cirkusová 1740, CZ-19300 Prague 9 – Horní Počernice, Czech Republic.
Hemiptera aquatic insects distribution true bugs Carpathians Balkan Peninsula Palaearctic Region pond skaters water striders

Abstract

The Romanian fauna comprises two species of Aquarius Schellenberg, 1800, eight species of Gerris Fabricius, 1794 and one species of Limnoporus Stål, 1868, and we hereby update the distribution and provide insights on the phenology and ecology of all eleven species in this country. We furthermore update the distribution of the two closely related species Gerris gibbifer Schummel, 1832 and G. maculatus Tamanini, 1946 in southeastern Europe. Gerris maculatus is recorded for the first time from Hungary, Montenegro and Slovenia, and the first detailed localities from Romania and Serbia are given. All bibliographic records of G. gibbifer from Romania, Macedonia and Serbia are based on misidentification and this species is thus excluded from the faunal lists of these countries. Both G. gibbifer and G. maculatus occur in Croatia, Hungary, Ukraine, and probably Slovenia.

 

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