Review of water bugs of the genus Micronecta Kirk. (Heteroptera, Corixidae) of the fauna of the Northwestern Caucasus

Abstract

A review of the species of the genus Micronecta from the Northwestern Caucasus with a key is provided. The regional distribution of Micronecta griseola Horváth, M. poweri (Douglas et Scott), and M. pusilla (Horváth) is clarified. Micronecta anatolica anatolica Lindberg is recorded from Russia for the first time.

Micronecta griseola Horvath, 1899 - a new species of the family Corixidae (Heteroptera) for the fauna of the Middle Urals

“…The range of distribution of the species is located in Western and Eastern Europe, from the British Isles ( Brooke and Nau 2003 ) in the west to the Western Siberia and Central Asia in the east, from southern Finland in the north to Italy in the south ( Kanyukova 2006 ). In the south of Russia, it is indicated from the North Caucasus ( Shapovalov et al 2014 ).The species was found in the Middle (our material) and South Urals ( Wroblewski 1963 ). In the Ob Basin, the species was recorded from Novosibirsk ( Belevich and Yurchenko 2012 ) and the south of Tyumen Regions ( Kanyukova et al 2019 ).…”