Notonecta Linnaeus, 1758

Ghahari, Hassan, Moulet, Pierre, Ostovan, Hadi & Linnavuori, Rauno E., 2013, An annotated catalog of the Iranian Dipsocoromorpha, Enicocephalomorpha, Gerromorpha, Leptopodomorpha and Nepomorpha (Hemiptera: Heteroptera), Zootaxa 3641 (4), pp. 301-342 : 330-331

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3641.4.1

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6148341

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Notonecta Linnaeus, 1758
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Genus Notonecta Linnaeus, 1758 View in CoL

Notonecta (Notonecta) glauca glauca Linnaeus, 1758

Notonecta glauca Linnaeus, 1758: 439 (as new species); Nepa notonecta De Geer, 1773: 382 ; Notonecta octopunctata Goeze, 1778: 169 ; Notonecta fabricii Fieber, 1851: 49 ; Notonecta glauca f. guttata Stichel, 1932: 215; Notonecta glauca f. fasciata Stichel, 1935: 309.

Distribution in Iran. East Azarbaijan (Baroughi 1978 as N. glauca marmorea Fabricius ; Hassazadeh et al. 2009a, b; Gharaat et al. 2009); Guilan (Cox & Cox 1995; Linnavuori & Hosseini 2000), Khorasan (Modarres Awal 2008), Markazi (Vafaei 2005), West Azarbaijan (Gharaat et al. 2009), Northern Iran (no locality cited) (Jakovlev 1877).

General distribution. Palearctic (Polhemus 1995; Fent et al. 2011).

Notonecta (Notonecta) glauca poissoni Hungerford, 1934

Notonecta glauca poissoni Hungerford, 1934: 49 (as new subspecies).

Distribution in Iran. Fars (Lindberg 1964), Kordestan (Wagner 1961).

General distribution. Caucasian: Anatolia, Armenia, Georgia, Iran (Polhemus 1995; Fent et al. 2011).

Notonecta (Notonecta) maculata Fabricius, 1794

Notonecta maculata Fabricius, 1794: 58 (as new species); Notonecta marmorea Fabricius, 1803: 103 ; Notonecta variegata Leach & Risso, 1826: 216 ; Notonecta fabricii var. umbrina Fieber, 1851: 50 ; Notonecta glauca var. fulva Fuente, 1897: 130 .

Distribution in Iran. East Azarbaijan (Baroughi 1978; Modarres Awal 1997), Fars (Ostovan & Arefnia 2011), Golestan (Hoberlandt 1959), Khorasan (Linnavuori & Modarres Awal 1998; Linnavuori & Hosseini 2000; Modarres Awal 2008), Mazandaran (Linnavuori & Hosseini 2000), Sistan & Baluchestan (Seidenstücker 1957), Northern Iran (no locality cited) (Hoberlandt 1959; Cox & Cox 1995).

General distribution. Euro-Mediterranean, Near East, Central Asia, Middle East (Polhemus 1995, Fent et al. 2011).

Notonecta (Notonecta) obliqua Thunberg, 1787

Notonecta obliqua Thunberg, 1787: 61 (as new species); Notonecta furcata Fabricius, 1794: 58 .

Distribution in Iran. Iran (no locality cited) (Polhemus 1995; Cox & Cox 1995). General distribution. Europe, Algeria, Near East (Polhemus 1995).

Comment. Polhemus (1995) mentions N. obliqua from Iran but draws attention to the fact that “Records from N Africa and various regions of Asia are based on misidentification of dark specimens of N. glauca (see Kanyukova 1973).”

Notonecta (Notonecta) viridis Delcourt, 1909

Notonecta fabricii var. marmorea Fieber, 1851: 50 non Fabricius, 1803; Notonecta viridis Delcourt, 1909: 379 (as new species); Notonecta halophila Edwards, 1918: 58 ; Notonecta viridis merionalis Hutchinson, 1927: 375 ; Notonecta viridis medietrranea Hutchinson, 1928: 35 ; Notonecta marmorea Esaki, 1928: 67 non Fabricius, 1803; Notonecta viridis kashmiriana Hungerford, 1934: 65 ; Notonecta viridis f. signata Stichel, 1935: 309.

Distribution in Iran. Ardabil (Linnavuori & Hosseini 2000; Ghahari et al. 2010a), East Azarbaijan (Linnavuori 2009; Khaghaninia et al. 2010a, b), Fars (Linnavuori 2009; Ostovan & Arefnia 2011), Guilan (Cox & Cox 1995), Kermanshah, West Azarbaijan (Linnavuori 2009), Khorasan (Linnavuori & Modarres Awal 1998; Linnavuori & Hosseini 2000; Modarres Awal 2008), Kordestan (Sakenin et al. 2010), Markazi (Vafaei 2005), Iran (no locality cited) (Hoberlandt 1961 as N. viridis viridis Delcourt, 1909 ).

General distribution. Holo-Mediterranean, extending to Central Asia, Middle East, Near East, Indian subcontinent (incl. Pakistan) (Polhemus 1995; Fent et al. 2011).

Comments. N. viridis are very frequent in pools, as an important biological control agent for mosquito larvae (Vafaei 2005).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Notonectidae

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