HETEROCLEPTINAE

Yang, Chang Man & Zettel, Herbert, 2005, Guide To The Aquatic Heteroptera Of Singapore And Peninsular Malaysia. V. Hydrometridae, Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 53 (1), pp. 79-97 : 79

SUBFAMILY HETEROCLEPTINAE

This subfamily can be easily separated from Hydrometrinae by much shorter body (length 3 mm). Included genera are Heterocleptes and Veliometra . The latter is found in Brazil. Heterocleptes is a primitive genus; originally with 3 species known only from Africa, but a fourth species, H. spinosus ( Fig. 1 ) was reported from Sabah by Andersen (1982b). Recently, Andersen and Grimaldi (2001) described a new fossil hydrometrid, Carinametra burmensis from a mid- Cretaceous Burmese amber (100-90 Ma) from north of Myanmar. They placed the genus in Heterocleptinae and suggested that this subfamily has been more widely distributed in the past.

Figures

Fig.1. Heterocleptes spinosus Andersen, macropterous female (from Andersen, 1982).