Halobates micans Eschscholtz, 1822

Anderson, R. Charles, Adam, M. Shiham & Cheng, Lanna, 2023, Marine insects of the Maldives (Heteroptera: Gerridae, Hermatobatidae and Veliidae; Diptera: Chironomidae) with notes on taxonomy, Indo-Pacific distribution, and ecology, Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 71, pp. 478-490 : 485

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.26107/RBZ-2023-0035
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:D962AC1C-4893-4E4E-AA31-D659A8D5F786
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10271595
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/151E9700-FC6D-FFBA-FC73-636CBFCDFA52
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Halobates micans Eschscholtz, 1822
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Halobates micans Eschscholtz, 1822 View in CoL

Halobates micans View in CoL is the only cosmopolitan species of Halobates View in CoL and is widely distributed in the warm tropical and subtropical oceanic waters of the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans ( Herring, 1961; Cheng, 1989). It has only occasionally been found in the relatively shallow waters of the Sunda Shelf ( Andersen & Cheng, 2004), including the waters around Singapore and peninsular Malaysia ( Tran et al., 2015). In Maldivian waters, this species has been collected further offshore than any other marine insect species ( Herring, 1961; Fig. 2C).

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Hemiptera
Family	Gerridae
Genus	Halobates