Corixa affinis Leach, 1817

Berchi, Gavril Marius, Rădac, Ioan Alexandru, Boda, Pál & Kment, Petr, 2024, Water boatmen (Heteroptera: Nepomorpha: Corixidae) of Romania, Zootaxa 5555 (2), pp. 227-252 : 232

Corixa affinis Leach, 1817

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Material examined. ROMANIA: Constanța County: Istria [brackish pools], 44.5631°N 28.733°E, 1 m a.s.l., 14.ix.2005, leg. J. Sychra, det. P. Kment , 5 ♂♂ 3 ♀♀ ( JSBC) . Dolj County: Ciupercenii Noi [light trap], 43.8368°N 22.9276°E, 30m a.s.l., 19.vi.2023, leg. C.O. Manci, 3♂♂ 7♀♀ . Timiș County: Becicherecu Mic [stream], 45.8102°N 21.1151°E, 93 m a.s.l., 08.viii.2015, 1 ♀ ; Cenad [channel], 46.1263°N 20.5638°E, 81 m a.s.l., 27.vii.2018, 1 ♀ ; Lovrin [channel], 45.9683°N 20.75°E, 88 m a.s.l., 17.iii.2019, 1 ♂ ; Sânpetru Mare [pond], 46.0555°N 20.8111°E, 87 m a.s.l., 17.iii.2019, 1 ♂ ; Toager [channel], 45.4131°N 20.9673°E, 73 m a.s.l., 06.vii.2018, 1 ♀ . Tulcea County: Sfântu Gheorghe [channel], 44.9002°N 29.594°E, 0 m a.s.l., 25.vii.2023, 1 ♀ .

Published records. Montandon (1886, 1907), Horváth (1897), Jaczewski (1934), Soós (1959), Sienkiewicz (1964), BucȘa (1972), Kis (1976), Jansson (1986, in map), Kis & Davidescu (1994), Davideanu (1999), Ilie (2006), Olosutean & Ilie (2013).

General distribution. From northern Africa and the southern half of Europe (including Azores and Great Britain) to southwestern Asia ( Jansson 1986, 1995; Fent et al. 2011; Grandova 2013, 2014a; Boda et al. 2015; Protić 2016; Csabai et al. 2017; Shapovalov et al. 2018b; Stoianova 2018; Taybi et al. 2018; Cianferoni 2019; Protić & Nadaždin 2019; Šeat & Nadaždin 2021; Berchi et al. 2023). In Romania, C. affinis is known from most of the country ( Fig. 8 ).

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FIGURES 8–11. Distribution in Romania: (8) Corixa affinis Leach, 1817; (9) C. dentipes Thomson, 1869; (10) C. panzeri Fieber, 1848; (11) C. punctata (Illiger, 1807). Blank dots represent published records, question marks represent dubious published records of C. dentipes, and solid dots represent records from this study.