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Halobates Eschscholtz, 1822

AphiaID

204105 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:204105)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Typetaxon

Halobates (Halobates) micans Eschscholtz, 1822 (type by subsequent designation)

Parent

Halobatini Bianchi, 1896

Synonymised names

Euratas Distant, 1910 · unaccepted (synonym)

Fabatus Distant, 1910 · unaccepted (synonym)

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Subgenus Halobates (Halobates) Eschscholtz, 1822
1. Species Halobates (Halobates) acherontis J. Polhemus, 1982
2. Species Halobates (Halobates) alluaudi Bergroth, 1893
3. Species Halobates (Halobates) browni Herring, 1961
4. Species Halobates (Halobates) bryani Herring, 1961
5. Species Halobates (Halobates) calyptus Herring, 1961
6. Species Halobates (Halobates) darwini Herring, 1961
7. Species Halobates (Halobates) dianae Zettel, 2001
8. Species Halobates (Halobates) elephanta Andersen & Foster, 1992
9. Species Halobates (Halobates) esakii Miyamoto, 1967
10. Species Halobates (Halobates) fijiensis Herring, 1958
11. Species Halobates (Halobates) flaviventris Eschscholtz, 1822
12. Species Halobates (Halobates) formidabilis (Distant, 1910)
13. Species Halobates (Halobates) galatea Herring, 1961
14. Species Halobates (Halobates) germanus White, 1883
15. Species Halobates (Halobates) hawaiiensis Usinger, 1938
16. Species Halobates (Halobates) hayanus White, 1883
17. Species Halobates (Halobates) herringi J. Polhemus & Cheng, 1982
18. Species Halobates (Halobates) japonicus Esaki, 1924
19. Species Halobates (Halobates) katherinae Herring, 1958
20. Species Halobates (Halobates) kelleni Herring, 1961
21. Species Halobates (Halobates) liaoi Zettel, 2005
22. Species Halobates (Halobates) maculatus Schadow, 1922
23. Species Halobates (Halobates) mariannarum Esaki, 1924
24. Species Halobates (Halobates) matsumurai Esaki, 1924
25. Species Halobates (Halobates) melleus Linnavuori, 1971
26. Species Halobates (Halobates) micans Eschscholtz, 1822
27. Species Halobates (Halobates) murphyi J. Polhemus & D. Polhemus, 1991
28. Species Halobates (Halobates) nereis Herring, 1961
29. Species Halobates (Halobates) panope Herring, 1961
30. Species Halobates (Halobates) peronis Herring, 1961
31. Species Halobates (Halobates) poseidon Herring, 1961
32. Species Halobates (Halobates) princeps White, 1883
33. Species Halobates (Halobates) proavus White, 1883
34. Species Halobates (Halobates) regalis Carpenter, 1892
35. Species Halobates (Halobates) robustus Barber, 1925
36. Species Halobates (Halobates) salotae Herring, 1961
37. Species Halobates (Halobates) sericeus Eschscholtz, 1822
38. Species Halobates (Halobates) sexualis Distant, 1903
39. Species Halobates (Halobates) sobrinus White, 1883
40. Species Halobates (Halobates) splendens Witlaczil, 1886
41. Species Halobates (Halobates) tethys Herring, 1961
42. Species Halobates (Halobates) trynae Herring, 1964
43. Species Halobates (Halobates) whiteleggei Skuse, 1891
44. Species Halobates (Halobates) zephyrus Herring, 1961
45. Species Halobates (Halobates) ashmorensis Malapatil, 1988 accepted as Halobates (Halobates) princeps White, 1883 (synonym)
46. Species Halobates (Halobates) australicus Malapatil, 1988 accepted as Halobates (Halobates) calyptus Herring, 1961 (synonym)
47. Species Halobates (Halobates) eschscholtzi Herring, 1961 accepted as Halobates (Halobates) flaviventris Eschscholtz, 1822 (synonym)
48. Species Halobates (Halobates) mangrovensis Schmidt & Mueller, 1973 accepted as Halobates (Halobates) melleus Linnavuori, 1971 (Synonym)
Subgenus Halobates (Hillela)
1. Species Halobates (Hillela) lannae Andersen & Weir, 1994
2. Species Halobates (Hillela) mjobergi Hale, 1925
3. Species Halobates (Hillela) robinsoni Andersen & Weir, 2003

Environment

marine, brackish, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

Not documented

Descriptive notes

Distribution Distribution: tropical indo-west pacific (Foster & Treherne, 1986).

Distribution Distribution: tropical indo-west pacific (Foster & Treherne, 1986). [details]

Taxonomic citation

WoRMS (2024). Halobates Eschscholtz, 1822. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=204105 on 2024-05-26

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

1998-09-22 10:53:32Z

created

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2001-03-06 11:16:43Z

changed

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2010-05-17 09:43:32Z

changed

Cheng, Lanna

2010-08-10 07:51:24Z

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Cheng, Lanna

2010-08-13 06:51:39Z

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Cheng, Lanna

2016-02-06 06:17:26Z

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Polhemus, Dan

2019-04-29 12:24:35Z

changed

Defever, Justin

2019-07-02 09:43:33Z

changed

Cheng, Lanna

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original description (of Euratas Distant, 1910) Distant, W. L. (1910). Some undescribed Gerrinae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. (8)5:40-153. [details]

taxonomy source Herring, J. L. (1959). The genus Halobates (Hemiptera: Gerridae). University of California, Berkeley., available online at http://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/pi/pdf/3(2)-223-305.pdf [details]

basis of record Foster, W.A. & J.E. Treherne (1986). The ecology and behaviour of a marine insect, Halobates fijiensis (Hemiptera: Gerridae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 86: 391-412. [details]

additional source Andersen, N.M.; Cheng, L. (2004). The marine insect Halobates (Heteroptera: Gerridae): biology, adaptations, distribution and phylogeny. Oceanogr. Mar. Biol. Ann. Rev. 42: 119-180. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors

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additional source Román-Palacios, C.; Damgaard, J.; Cheng, L.; Moreira, F. F. F.; Ikawa, T.; Weir, T. A.; Zettel, H. (2018). Molecular phylogeny of sea-skaters (Halobates ), relationship between Halobatini and Metrocorini, and a catalogue of the subfamily Halobatinae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Gerridae). Insect Systematics & Evolution. 1-102., available online at https://doi.org/10.1163/1876312x-00002197 [details] Available for editors

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additional source Cheng, L. (Ed.). (1976). Marine insects. North-Holland Publishing Company: Amsterdam, The Netherlands. ISBN 0-444-11213-8. XII, 581 pp., available online at http://repositories.cdlib.org/sio/techreport/48/ [details]