Hesperocorixa, Kirkaldy, 1908

Cianferoni, Fabio, 2019, Review of the aquatic Hemiptera from Cephalonia, with a checklist for the Ionian Islands, Greece (Heteroptera: Gerromorpha, Nepomorpha, Leptopodomorpha), Zootaxa 4576 (1) : -

Hesperocorixa sp.

Corixa parallela Fieber : De Carlini (1901: 78); Sangiorgi (1903: 92). Misidentification (suspected).

Published material. “Liscuri (m. 100)” ( De Carlini 1901), “Lixuri” ( Sangiorgi 1903).

Remarks. Although H. parallela was originally described from the “Greek Archipelago” ( Fieber 1860; see below), the record of it from Cephalonia seems improbable since it is a predominantly montane species (see Bacchi & Rizzotti Vlach 2007) and this specimen was collected at low elevation (see De Carlini 1901, Sangiorgi 1903). This record probably was a misidentification of the similar H. sahlbergi (Fieber, 1848) , which occurrs on Corfu (see Jansson 1986, Csabai et al. 2017).

The name Corixa parallela proposed by Fieber (1860) on material “aus dem griechischen Archipel [= from the Greek Archipelago]” possibly originally pertained to another species of Corixidae rather than to the neotype chosen by A. Jansson (Jansson 1986: 50), which was from a mountainous area in Macedonia (FYROM) at 1179 m a.s.l.