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Distribution
India: Andhra Pradesh, Bihar,
Delhi, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa, Tamil
Nadu, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal.
Materials Examined
2 exs.
17.xii.2008,
Fresh
water Creek along Baitarani river, New Dhamra,
District: Bhadrak, Orissa D.V. Rao & Party.
Elsewhere
Myanmar,
China,
Africa,
Turkey,
Diagnostic Characters
Colour: Dark brownish
above, fore femur almost straight and slightly
constricted before apex, terminated by two
distinct spines. The middle tibia longer than the
hind tibia; the hind femur distinctly longer than
the middle femur. Abdomen: moderately slender
slightly widened in the middle; Connexival
spines stout and long, almost reaching abdominal
end (Proctiger). Segment 8 large, subcylindrical,
with a prominent, triangular tubercle on the
ventral surface. Pygophore large, subovate.
Parameres connate and setose. Proctiger elongate,
ovate with pointed apex.
Indonesia
Infraorder: Gerromorpha Popov, 1971
Family: Gerridae Leach, 1815
Family: Gerridae
Subfamily: Gerrinae Bianchi, 1896
Genus:
Limnogonus
Stal, 1868
8. Limnogonus (Limnogonus) nitidus
(Mayr,
1865)
1865.
Hydrometra nitida
Mayr
Verh. Zool. Bot.
Ges. Wein, 15-443
1994. Limnogonus (Limnogonus) nitidus
Mayr
Bal & Basu, Zool. Surv. of India
State Fauna, Series 3. Fauna of West
Bengal
: 525
Distribution
India: Andhra Pradesh, Bihar,
Karnataka,
Kerala,
Maharashtra,
Orissa,
Materials Examined
17 exs. 21.vi.2008. Ghe
Koili, Chandbali, District: Bhadrak, Orissa,
S. Dash & Party.
Pondicherry, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal.
Family: Mesoveliidae
Subfamily: Mesoveliinae
Genus:
Mesovelia
10.
Mesovelia vittigera
Horvath, 1895.
1895.
Diagnostic Characters
Limnogonus nitidus
is a
black and long-legged water strider. Anterio
pronotal lobe with yellow markings. This species
is having a distinct connexival spine. It is a
widespread species being distributed from sea
level to 1,000 m and mostly found as winged
individuals.
Mesovelia vittigera
Horvath, Rev.
Entomologie
, 14:160.
1989.
Mesovelia vittigera
Horvath
, Thirumalai
Rec. Zool. Surv. of India,
Occ. Pap. No.
165: 28
Materials Examined
3exs.
14.xii.2008,
West side
of mouth area, Dhamra, District: Bhadrak, Orissa
D.V. Rao & Party.
Distribution
India: Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal
Pradesh, Bihar, Delhi, Chandigarh, Karnataka,
Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Orissa,
Pondicherry, Manipur, Meghalaya, Rajasthan,
Tamil Nadu, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh, West
Bengal.
Genus:
Aquarius
(Dohrn, 1860)
9.
Aquarius adelaides
(Dohrn, 1860)
1860.
Gerris adelaides
Dohrn ,
Stett. ent. Ztq.
,
21: 408 .
1990.
Aquarius adelaides
Dohrn, Andersen,
Steenstrupia, 16:61.
1994.
Aquarius adelaides
Dohrn,
Thirumalai
Rec. Zool. Surv. of India,
Occ. Pap. No. 165:
36
Diagnostic Characters
Mesovelia vittigera
is
pale green. It is larger than
Microvelia douglasi
atrolineata
Bergroth. It appears in two morphs,
the winged and unwinged adults. The head is
longer than it is wide and is acute frontally. Its
eyes are not convergent. The tarsi of the legs have
small basal segment. In winged species, the
membrane on the hemelytron of the front wings
has no closed cells and the corium has dark brown
thickened veins forming three whitish cells.
Mesovelia vittigera
is a solitary feeder. This
species is found in slow-running water covered
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