Corixidae

• Main Authors: Scudder, G. G. E., Sikes, D. S.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2014
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Hemiptera; Corixidae; Kodiak; Alaska
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6144052; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03E49D2FFFD241019AC8DA2DFB2BF83F

Family CORIXIDAE Callicorixa praeusta praeusta (Fieber) Fieber (1848) recorded C. praeusta from Sitka and Unalaska, and Heidemann (1900) reported this species from Kodiak and Sitka. However, Hungerford (1948) noted that the Fieber (1848) records must be based on misidentified specimens that are probably C. alaskensis Hungerford. Hungerford (1948) listed the Fieber (1848) and Heidemann (1900) records under C. alaskensis and in fact listed specimens that he had examined from Kodiak (10.ix.1919 (Jas. S. Hine)) and Unalaska (26.viii.1937 (V.B. Scheffer)). Sailer (1952) also noted that Hungerford (1948) had shown that the earlier records of C. praeusta from Alaska actually referred to C. alaskensis . This was also noted by Polhemus et al. (1988). Hence, the Kiritshenko (1960) and Lattin (2008) reports of C. praeusta from Alaska must be disregarded, and this species removed from the list of Alaska Heteroptera. Published as part of Scudder, G. G. E. & Sikes, D. S., 2014, Alaskan Heteroptera (Hemiptera): new records, associated data, and deletions, pp. 373-381 in Zootaxa 3852 (3) on page 379, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.3852.3.6, http://zenodo.org/record/230536