Hesperocorixa parallela (Fieber, 1860)

Klementová, Barbora Reduciendo, Kment, Petr & Svitok, Marek, 2015, Checklist of water bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Nepomorpha, Gerromorpha) of Slovakia, Zootaxa 4058 (2), pp. 227-243 : 232

Hesperocorixa parallela (Fieber, 1860)

Published record. ‘Rozsnyó: Ökörhegy [= Rožňava, Volovské vrchy Mts., Skalisko Mt., Volovec pass] (Bartkó [leg.], VII.1913 1 m*, 1280 m)’ ( Sóos 1959).

Comment. Hesperocorixa parallela is a mountain species with scattered occurrence in southern Europe, Caucasus, Transcaucasia, Turkey, Near East and Iran ( Polhemus et al. 1995, Aukema et al. 2013). In Central Europe the species is cofined only to the Carpathians ( Slovakia, Poland, Transcarpathian Ukraine, Romania) ( Soós 1959, Polhemus et al. 1995) where it prefers small and shallow tarns usually above 1700 m a.s.l. ( Wróblewski 1980). The Slovak record by Soós (1959) was overlooked by Hoberlandt (1977) and Polhemus et al. (1995).