Rhagadotarsus (Rhagadotarsus) kraepelini Breddin, 1905

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

Rhagadotarsus (Rhagadotarsus) kraepelini Breddin, 1905

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 4 males (ap); Taxon: scientificName: Rhagadotarsus (Rhagadotarsus) kraepelini; Location: island: Mindoro; country: Philippines; municipality: Baco; locationRemarks: 353u1; Event: eventDate: 24.08.2017

Distribution

Rhagadotarsus (Rhagadotarsus) kraepelini Breddin, 1905 (see Breddin 1905) is a widespread species in southern and south-eastern Asia and Micronesia ( Polhemus and Karunaratne 1993). In the Philippines, R. kraepelini is distributed throughout the country, but the limits of its distribution in the Philippines are still unclear ( Zettel 2014). See Fig. 8 for the additional record.

Taxon discussion

For identification, refer to the key by Polhemus and Karunaratne (1993).

Habitat

The specimens were found amongst floating water plants in a residual pool of a dried-up lowland creek in a rural area.

Figures

Figure 8. Distribution of the collecting sites of Gerromorpha material (part 2) treated in this study.