Halobates micans Eschscholtz, 1822

Damgaard, Jakob & Moreira, Felipe Ferraz Figueiredo, 2021, Water bugs (Hemipera: Heteroptera: Nepomorpha & Gerromorpha) of Chile phylogenetic and biogeographic considerations, and a catalog of the fauna, Zootaxa 4958 (1), pp. 45-71 : 53

Halobates micans Eschscholtz, 1822

Halobates micans Eschscholtz, 1822: 107 .—ST: @, southern Pacific Ocean and southern Atlantic Ocean; IZBE.

Halobates streatfieldana Templeton, 1836: 230 (syn. Herring 1961: 246).—ST: @, Atlantic Ocean; repository unknown.

Halobates wullerstorffi von Frauenfeld, 1867: 458 (syn. Dahl 1893: 6).—ST: #, @, Brazil, off Cape Frio near Rio de Janeiro; NHMW.

Halobates inermis Dahl, 1893: 6 (syn. Schadow 1922: 1).—HT: @, Atlantic Ocean; repository unknown.

Distribution. Atlantic Ocean, including Caribbean Sea, between 40° N and 40° S, with few records out of these latitudes; Indian Ocean between 20° N and 30– 40° S; western Pacific Ocean between 30° N and 20– 25° S; central and eastern Pacific Ocean between 35° N and 20° S, with few records out of these latitudes. American Samoa; Antigua & Barbuda; Argentina; Aruba; Australia; Azores Arch.; Bahamas; Barbados; Bermuda; Brazil; Cameroon; Canary Is.; Cape Verde Is.; Cayman Is.; Chile; China; Clipperton Is.; Colombia; Cook Is.; Cuba; Ecuador (including Galapagos Is.); Egypt; French Guiana; French Polynesia; Guadeloupe; India; Indonesia; Japan; Kiribati; Juan de Nova Is.; Madagascar; Madeira Arch.; Maldives; Marquesas Is.; Marshall Is.; Martinique; Mauritania; Mauritius; Mexico; Micronesia; Myanmar; Palau; Panama; Papua New Guinea; Philippines; Seychelles (Aldabra Atoll, Cosmoledo Atoll); Solomon Is.; Somalia; Spain; Sri Lanka; St. Helena Is.; St. Vincent & Grenadines; Taiwan; Trinidad & Tobago; Uruguay; U. S. A.; U. S. Virgin Is.; Vietnam ( Román-Palacios et al. 2020).