Picaultia Distant, 1913

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 : 310

publication ID

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

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:5A7D0FB4-A976-4BF9-A3F1-65A09D4D6762

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6148211

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/A94D7D64-597C-712A-FF29-397AAB95F8FC

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Picaultia Distant, 1913
status

 

Subgenus Picaultia Distant, 1913

Microvelia (Picaultia) macani Brown, 1953

Microvelia hozari macani Brown, 1953: 584 (as new subspecies); Microvelia perexigua Linnavuori, 1960: 54 ; Microvelia macani Linnavuori, 1986: 38 .

Distribution in Iran. Guilan (Linnavuori & Hosseini 2000), Hormozgan (Linnavuori 2004), Khuzestan (Linnavuori 2009).

General distribution. Eremian, occurring in the Arabian Peninsula, Israel, Iraq, and Iran (Andersen 1995; Linnavuori et al. 2011).

Comments. Collected at light traps in Guilan (Linnavuori & Hosseini, 2000); in biotopes with Juncus sp. ( Juncaceae ), Phragmites sp. (Poaeceae), and sedges (Linnavuori 2009).

The genus Picaultia Distant was synonymized with Microvelia by China & Usinger (1949), but its subgeneric status was reinstated by Andersen & Weir (2003).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Veliidae

GBIF Dataset (for parent article) Darwin Core Archive (for parent article) View in SIBiLS Plain XML RDF