Anisops sardeus Herrich-Schaeffer, 1849

Lamelas-López, Lucas, Raposeiro, Pedro Miguel, Borges, Paulo A. V. & Florencio, Margarita, 2017, Annotated checklist of aquatic beetles (Coleoptera) and true bugs (Heteroptera) in the Azores Islands: new records and corrections of colonization status, Zootaxa 4353 (1), pp. 117-132 : 122-123

Anisops sardeus Herrich-Schaeffer, 1849

Material. OnE jUVEnIlE. COllEcTEd On 20/VIII/2014. "LAgOInhA dA SErrETA" - TErcEIrA ISlAnd. UTM: 26 S 471127 4289052.

Habitat. Anisops sardeus InhAbITS SEVErAl AQUATIc hAbITATS, InclUdIng pOndS And lAkES, TEmpOrArY Or pErmAnEnT, frEShWATEr, brAckISh Or SAlT WATErS WITh prESEncE Of AQUATIc VEgETATIOn (BrOOkS 1951; BArrY 1997; LAhr et al. 1999). ThE SpEcIES IS AlSO cOmmOnlY fOUnd In cATTlE TAnkS (AbEllÁn et al. 2004).

Azorean habitat. WE cOllEcTEd A SInglE SpEcImEn In A pErmAnEnT pOnd lOcATEd In A hIgh-ElEVATIOn nATIVE fOrEST (767 m. A.S.l). ThIS pOnd IS chArAcTErIzEd bY SlIghTlY AcIdIc WATEr ExhIbITIng A pH VAlUE Of 5.5; ThE WATEr ElEcTrIc cOndUcTIVITY WAS 47.8 µS cm–1, And ThE dISSOlVEd OxYgEn cOncEnTrATIOn WAS 7.6 mg L–1.

World distribution. ThIS SpEcIES hAS A WIdESprEAd dISTrIbUTIOn. IT IS prESEnT In MEdITErrAnEAn EUrOpE, NOrTh AfrIcA And MIddlE EAST (BrOOkS 1951; POlhEmUS 1996; KlEmEnTOVÁ & SVITOk 2014).

Azorean distribution. AzOrES IS ThE WESTErnmOST dISTrIbUTIOn Of ThIS SpEcIES. ITS prESEncE hAd bEEn prEVIOUSlY rEgISTErEd In ThE AzOrES bUT WIThOUT A rEfErEncE TO AnY SpEcIfIc ISlAnd (ZImmErmAnn 1984).