Anisops rhomboides Nieser & Chen, 1999

Pelingen, Arthien Lovell, Zettel, Herbert, Pangantihon, Clister V, Aldaba, Kyra Mari Dominique, Fatallo, Earl Kevin, de Leon, Jemillie Madonna & Freitag, Hendrik, 2020, Contributions to the knowledge of water bugs in Mindoro Island, Philippines, with a species checklist of Nepomorpha and Gerromorpha (Insecta, Hemiptera, Heteroptera), Biodiversity Data Journal 8, pp. 56883-56883 : 56883

Anisops rhomboides Nieser & Chen, 1999

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 4 males (ma), 3 (NN); Taxon: scientificName: Anisopsrhomboides; Location: island: Mindoro; country: Philippines; municipality: Baco; locationRemarks: 353u1; Event: eventDate: 24.08.2017

Distribution

The species (Fig. 4 F) is recorded from Brunei, Borneo, Sulawesi and the Philippines ( Nieser and Chen 1999, Chen et al. 2005). Previous Philippine records refer to Leyte, Mindanao, Palawan and Tawi Tawi ( Zettel et al. 2012). This is the first record from Mindoro (Fig. 5 ).

Taxon discussion

For identification, refer to the key by Zettel (2003a). Its specific epithet, rhomboides , refers to the lozenge-shaped fossa on the tylus ( Nieser and Chen 1999), which is a good character for identification.

Habitat

Anisops rhomboides Nieser & Chen, 1999 (see Nieser and Chen 1999) is found in a variety of shallow, stagnant freshwater bodies, such as lakes, ponds, carabao puddles, marsh land and moats ( Nieser and Chen 1999).

Figures

Figure 4. Habitus illustrations of Nepomorpha of Mindoro A. Ranatra sp. (R. gracilis group); B. Ochterus polhemusi; C. Asthenocoris luzonensis paradisianus; D. Aphelocheirus (s. str) freitagi; E. Anisops kuroiwae; F. Anisops rhomboides; G. Enithares martini mindoroensis; H. Hydrotrephes stereoides mindoroensis. Scale bars A 10 mm B-H 1 mm. A & C © NHMW Hemiptera Image Collection / photo: H. Bruckner, printed with permission.

Figure 5. Distribution of the collecting sites of Nepomorpha material treated in this study.