Circumpolar Distribution of Water Boatmen (Hemiptera: Corixidae)

• Published in: The Canadian Entomologist
• Main Author: Sailer, R. I.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1952
• Subjects: Insect Science; Molecular Biology; Physiology; Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; Structural Biology; Northwest Territories; Hudson Bay; Hudson; Kolyma; Bering Island; kolyma river; Sakhalin; Alaska; Siberia
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.4039/ent84280-9; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0008347X00101191

Only two species of Corixidae, commonly known as water boatmen, are known to occur in both the Old and New Worlds. One of these is Callicorixa producta Reuter, which Hungerford (1948) has divided into three subspecies. On the basis of existing records the typical subspecies is restricted to the Scan...