Ochterus polhemusi Gapud, 1981

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

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scientific name

Ochterus polhemusi Gapud, 1981
status

 

Ochterus polhemusi Gapud, 1981 View in CoL

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 1 female (ma); Taxon: scientificName: Ochteruspolhemusi; Location: island: Mindoro; country: Philippines; municipality: Roxas; locationRemarks: HBT(E); Event: eventDate: 21.09.2017 Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 3 males (ma); Taxon: scientificName: Ochteruspolhemusi; Location: island: Mindoro; country: Philippines; municipality: Roxas; locationRemarks: HQCk; Event: eventDate: 21.09.2017 Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 1 female (ma); Taxon: scientificName: Ochteruspolhemusi; Location: island: Mindoro; country: Philippines; municipality: Roxas; locationRemarks: HQC(E); Event: eventDate: 28.09.2017 Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 4 males (ma); Taxon: scientificName: Ochteruspolhemusi; Location: island: Mindoro; country: Philippines; municipality: Roxas; locationRemarks: TWCj; Event: eventDate: 23.09.2017

Distribution

This species (Fig. 4 View Figure 4 B) is widely distributed in the Philippines. See Fig. 5 View Figure 5 for our additional records.

Taxon discussion

Refer to Gapud (1981) for identification. In Mindoro, three species of Ochterus Latreille, 1807 are recorded so far, O. marginatus (Latreille, 1804) ssp. insularis Rieger, 1977, O. polhemusi Gapud, 1981 and O. philippinensis Kormilev, 1971 ( Kormilev 1971, Gapud 1995, Gapud 2002).

Habitat

We collected specimens in emergence traps spanned over littoral portions of small streams, on hygropetric rocks and along small rivulets. The species is generally found in banks of streams, ponds, lakes, freshwater marshlands and in association with waterfalls. It is also found in substrates that are muddy or sandy.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Ochteridae

Genus

Ochterus