Hesperocorixa

Hesperocorixa
Hesperocorixa castanea
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hemiptera
Suborder:	Heteroptera
Family:	Corixidae
Tribe:	Corixini
Genus:	Hesperocorixa Kirkaldy, 1908

Hesperocorixa is a genus of water boatmen in the family Corixidae. There are at least 20 described species in Hesperocorixa.

Hesperocorixa sahlbergi

Species

These 29 species belong to the genus Hesperocorixa:

• Hesperocorixa algirica (Puton, 1890) ^g
• Hesperocorixa atopodonta (Hungerford, 1927) ^{i c g b}
• Hesperocorixa bertrandi Poisson, 1957 ^g
• Hesperocorixa brasiliensis ^g
• Hesperocorixa brimleyi (Kirkaldy, 1908) ^{i c g}
• Hesperocorixa castanea (Thomson, 1869) ^g
• Hesperocorixa escheri (Heer, 1853) ^{i c g}
• Hesperocorixa furtiva (Horváth, 1907) ^g
• Hesperocorixa georgiensis (Egbert, 1946) ^{i c g}
• Hesperocorixa harrisi (Uhler, 1878) ^{i c g}
• Hesperocorixa interrupta (Say, 1825) ^{i c g b}
• Hesperocorixa kennicotti (Uhler, 1897) ^{i c g}
• Hesperocorixa laevigata (Uhler, 1893) ^{i c g b}
• Hesperocorixa linnaei (Fieber, 1848) ^g
• Hesperocorixa lobata (Hungerford, 1925) ^{i c g b}
• Hesperocorixa lucida (Abbott, 1916) ^{i c g}
• Hesperocorixa luteola Nieser, 1979 ^g
• Hesperocorixa martini (Hungerford, 1928) ^{i c g}
• Hesperocorixa michiganensis (Hungerford, 1926) ^{i c g}
• Hesperocorixa minor (Abbott, 1913) ^{i c g}
• Hesperocorixa minorella (Hungerford, 1926) ^{i c g}
• Hesperocorixa moesta (Fieber, 1848) ^g
• Hesperocorixa nitida (Fieber, 1851) ^{i c g}
• Hesperocorixa obliqua (Hungerford, 1925) ^{i c g b}
• Hesperocorixa parallela (Fieber, 1860) ^g
• Hesperocorixa sahlbergi (Fieber, 1848) ^g
• Hesperocorixa scabricula (Walley, 1936) ^{i c g}
• Hesperocorixa semilucida (Walley, 1930) ^{i c g}
• Hesperocorixa vulgaris (Hungerford, 1925) ^{i c g b}

Data sources: i = ITIS, c = Catalogue of Life, g = GBIF, b = Bugguide.net

Further reading

• Arnett, Ross H. Jr. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico (2nd ed.). CRC Press. ISBN 0-8493-0212-9.
• Aukema, Berend; Rieger, Christian, eds. (1995). Catalogue of the Heteroptera of the Palaearctic Region, vol. 1: Enicocephalomorpha, Dipsocoromorpha, Nepomorpha, Gerromorpha and Leptopodomorpha. The Netherlands Entomological Society. ISBN 90-71912-12-4.
• Blatchley, W.S. (1926). Heteroptera, or true bugs of eastern North America, with especial reference to the faunas of Indiana and Florida. Nature Publishing. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.6871.
• Henry, Thomas J.; Froeschner, Richard C., eds. (1988). Catalog of the Heteroptera, or True Bugs, of Canada and the Continental United States. E. J. Brill. ISBN 0-916846-44-X.
• Walker, Francis (1871). Catalogue of the Specimens of Hemiptera Heteroptera in the Collection of the British Museum, pt. IV. British Museum. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.9254.

External links

• Media related to Hesperocorixa at Wikimedia Commons