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Halobates (Halobates) hawaiiensis Usinger, 1938

478501  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:478501)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Arthropoda (Phylum)
  4. Crustacea (Subphylum)
  5. Allotriocarida (Superclass)
  6. Hexapoda (Class)
  7. Insecta (Subclass)
  8. Pterygota (Infraclass)
  9. Hemiptera (Order)
  10. Heteroptera (Suborder)
  11. Gerromorpha (Infraorder)
  12. Gerridae (Family)
  13. Halobatinae (Subfamily)
  14. Halobatini (Tribe)
  15. Halobates (Genus)
  16. Halobates (Halobates) (Subgenus)
  17. Halobates (Halobates) hawaiiensis (Species)
accepted
Species
marine
Usinger, R. L. (1938). Biological notes on the pelagic water striders (Halobates) of the Hawaiian Islands, with description of a new species from Waikiki (Gerridae, Hemiptera). <em>Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society.</em> 10: 77–84. [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]
Holotype  BPBM, verbatimGeounit Hawaiian Islands, Oa...  
Holotype BPBM, verbatimGeounit Hawaiian Islands, Oa... [details]
, Type locality contained in Hawaiian Exclusive Economic Zone  
type locality contained in Hawaiian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
WoRMS (2025). Halobates (Halobates) hawaiiensis Usinger, 1938. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=478501 on 2025-08-27
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2010-05-31 07:43:44Z
created
Decock, Wim
2010-08-13 06:51:39Z
changed
Cheng, Lanna
2016-02-06 06:17:26Z
changed
Polhemus, Dan

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Nomenclature

original description Usinger, R. L. (1938). Biological notes on the pelagic water striders (Halobates) of the Hawaiian Islands, with description of a new species from Waikiki (Gerridae, Hemiptera). <em>Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society.</em> 10: 77–84. [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

basis of record Andersen, N.M.; Cheng, L. (2004). The marine insect <i>Halobates</i> (Heteroptera: Gerridae): biology, adaptations, distribution and phylogeny. <em>Oceanogr. Mar. Biol. Ann. Rev.</em> 42: 119-180. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

Other

additional source Ikawa, T.; Okabe, H.; Cheng, L. (2012). Skaters of the seas – comparative ecology of nearshore and pelagic Halobates species (Hemiptera: Gerridae), with special reference to Japanese species Mar. Biol. Res. 8(10): 915-936. [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

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] 

 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

Holotype BPBM, verbatimGeounit Hawaiian Islands, Oa... [details]
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