Merragata hebroides White, 1877

Riviaux, Senén Muñoz, Moreira, Felipe Ferraz Figueiredo & López, Carlos Naranjo, 2010, Checklist, distribution, and habitat of the semiaquatic and aquatic bugs from Cuba (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Dipsocoromorpha, Leptopodomorpha, Gerromorpha and Nepomorpha), Zootaxa 2562, pp. 1-23 : 6

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scientific name	Merragata hebroides White, 1877
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Geographical distribution: Canada in the Nearctic region to Argentina in the Neotropical region (not reported from Chile); introduced in the Hawaiian Islands and Canary Islands.

Material from Cuba: Matanzas, Ciénaga de Zapata, Playa Larga, several specimens collected in april (ESI) ( Alayo 1967, 1974). Santiago de Cuba, Dos Palmas, Presa Gilbert, 6.XII.2005, Y. S. Megna leg., 4 specimens ( NHMC) ( Deler-Hernández et al. 2007).

Habitat: found in Cuba between submerged vegetation of lentic habitats, from small ponds to dams, up to 200 m above sea-level.

References

Alayo, P. D. (1967) Catalogo de la fauna de Cuba. XVI. Los hemipteros acuaticos de Cuba. Trabajos de Divulgacion (Museo Felipe Poey, Academia de Ciencias de Cuba), 38, 1 - 68.

Alayo, P. D. (1974) Los hemipteros acuaticos de Cuba. Torreia (Nueva Serie), 36, 9 - 64.

Deler-Hernandez, A., Megna, Y. S., Gonzalez-Lazo, D. D. & Torres, C. N. C. (2007) Insectos acuaticos y areas prioritarias para la conservacion en la cuenca alta del Rio Cauto (Santiago de Cuba, Cuba). Boletin de la Sociedad Entomologica Aragonesa, 40, 451 - 461.