Gerris (Gerris) comatus Drake & Hottes, 1925

Kment, Petr & Kolínová, Zdislava, 2013, Catalogue of type specimens of true bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) deposited in the National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic, Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 53 (2), pp. 821-890 : 863

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5740731
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5741064
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scientific name	Gerris (Gerris) comatus Drake & Hottes, 1925
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Gerris (Gerris) comatus Drake & Hottes, 1925 View in CoL

Gerris (Gerris) comatus Drake & Hottes, 1925: 48–49 View in CoL (original description).

One paratype is deposited in NMPC:

PARATYPE (J macr.): ‘Ames. Iowa [p] / X-18 [hw] 192[p]4 [hw] / C. [p] J. [hw] Drake [p] // H G Barber / Colln 1950 [p] // PARATYPE [p] / Gerris / comatus / D + H [hw, red label] // Gerris / comatus / D. & H. [hw, white label with black frame submarginally] // J [p]’.

Current status. Valid species: Gerris (Gerris) comatus Drake & Hottes, 1925 (see SMITH 1988b; ANDERSEN 1994, 1995b; DAMGAARD et al. in press).

References

ANDERSEN N. M. 1994: Classification, phylogeny, and zoogeography of the pond skater genus Gerris Fabricius (Hemiptera: Gerridae). Canadian Journal of Zoology 71 (1993): 2473 - 2508.

ANDERSEN N. M. 1995 b: Cladistics, historical biogeography, and a check list of gerrine water striders (Hemiptera, Gerridae) of the World. Steenstrupia 21: 93 - 123.

DRAKE C. J. & HOTTES F. C. 1925: Four undescribed species of waterstriders (Hemip. - Gerridae). Ohio Journal of Science 25: 46 - 50.

SMITH C. L. 1988 b: Family Gerridae Leach, 1815. The Water Striders. Pp. 140 - 151. In: HENRY T. J. & FROESCHNER R. C. (eds.): Catalog of the Heteroptera, or True Bugs, of Canada and the Continental United States. E. J. Brill, Leiden, New York, Kobenhaven, Koln, xix + 958 pp.