Checklist of water bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Nepomorpha, Gerromorpha) of Slovakia
Klementová, Barbora Reduciendo
Kment, Petr
Svitok, Marek
Zootaxa
2015
4058
2
227
243
7W3FW
Muller, 1776
Muller
1776
[151,656,948,974]
Insecta
Notonectidae
Notonecta
Animalia
Hemiptera
6
233
Arthropoda
species
lutea
Notonecta
Material examined.Klin, Klinské rašelinisko [peat bog], 49°25′42″N, 19°29′46″E, 611 ma.s.l. 19.v.1993, 2 ♂♂, lgt. P. Bitušík, det. B. Reduciendo Klementová (coll. DEGB). Klin, Klinské rašelinisko [peat bog], 49°25′42″N, 19°29′46″E, 611 ma.s.l., 19.vii.1990, 1 specimen(macropterous), lgt. P. Bitušík, det. B. Reduciendo Klementová (coll. Central SlovakiaMuseum in Banská Bystica, Slovakia).
Remarks.The species was found in ombrogenous peat bog pools with pHof water from 4 to 6 ( Hindák 2012).
Distribution. Notonecta luteais distributed in central, northern and eastern Europe, Russiaand Kazakhstan( Jaczewski & Wróblewski 1978, Dioli 1994, Polhemus et al.1995, Soós et al.2009, Berchi 2013). This species is common in bogs overgrown with heather or Sphagnumspp. but can be also found in ditches or swamps with dystrophic, mixtrophic or eutrophic water ( Jastrey 1981, Nieser 1982).