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Issue: Vol. 5448 No. 1: 9 May 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-05-09
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5448.1.9
Page range: 135-142
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Review of Nychia marshalli in the Western Palaearctic, with new records and distributional notes (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Notonectidae)

Research Institute on Terrestrial Ecosystems (IRET); National Research Council of Italy (CNR); Via Madonna del Piano 10; 50019 Sesto Fiorentino (Florence); Italy; Zoology; “La Specola”; Natural History Museum; University of Florence; Via Romana 17; 50125 Florence; Italy
Institute of Environment; Florida International University; Miami; Florida; 33199 USA
Hemiptera Corsica distribution France Italy Mediterranean Nepomorpha Sardinia

Abstract

The backswimmer Nychia marshalli (Scott, 1872) (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Notonectidae) is reported for the first time from Italy on the island of Sardinia. A new record of N. marshalli from Corsica (the first from the eastern coast) is provided and the distribution of the species in the Western Palearctic region is summarized. Although records of N. marshalli continue to be documented around the western Mediterranean, its distribution in the remaining part of its range can still be improved and the relationship of the Palaearctic population to sub-Saharan populations of Nychia needs to be further investigated.

 

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