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Halovelia

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4774617	https://www.gbif.org/species/4774617
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	256623	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=256623

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Hemiptera : Veliidae : Halovelia

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Hemiptera : Veliidae : Halovelia

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Bilateria
-	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
-	Protostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Ecdysozoa
-	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Latreille 1829
subphylum	Mandibulata
-	Pancrustacea
superclass	Hexapoda	Latreille 1825
-	Cercofilata	Kukalová-Peck 1987
class	Insecta	Linnaeus 1758
-	Dicondylia
-	Paranotalia	Sroka et al. 2014
subclass	Pterygota	Brauer 1885
-	Neopterygota	Crampton 1924
infraclass	Neoptera	Martynov 1923
-	Clareocercaria	Prokop et al. 2017
-	Acercaria
superorder	Pancondylognatha	Yoshizawa and Leinhard 2016
-	Condylognatha	Börner 1904
order	Hemiptera	Linnaeus 1758
suborder	Heteroptera	Latreille 1810
infraorder	Gerromorpha	Popov 1971
family	Veliidae
subfamily	Haloveliinae	Esaki 1930
genus	Halovelia	Bergroth 1893

Scientific Name

Halovelia Bergroth, 1893

Name Published In

Ent. mon. Mag., 29

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Halovelia	genus	belongs to Veliadae	stated with evidence	Bergroth, 1893
Halovelia	genus	belongs to Haloveliinae	stated with evidence	Andersen, 1998

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

1 (50%)

First Recorded Appearance

20.4 - 13.8 Ma
Miocene

Environment

terrestrial (based on Insecta)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Arthropoda)

Taphonomy

chitin (based on Insecta)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

E. Bergroth. 1893. On two halophilous Hemiptera. The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 29:277-279

Common Name(s)

Coral Bugs

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Halovelia abdominalis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Halovelia amphibia species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Halovelia annemariae species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Halovelia bergrothi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Halovelia carinata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Halovelia carolinensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Halovelia convexa species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Halovelia corallia species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Halovelia depressa species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Halovelia electrodominica ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	20.4 Ma Miocene	20.4 Ma Miocene
Halovelia esakii species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Halovelia fijiensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Halovelia fosteri species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Halovelia halophila species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Halovelia heron species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Halovelia hilli species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Halovelia huniye species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Halovelia inflexa species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Halovelia lannae species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Halovelia malaya species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Halovelia maritima species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Halovelia mauricensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Halovelia misima species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Halovelia nicobarensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Halovelia novoguinensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Halovelia pauliana species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Halovelia pauliani species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Halovelia poissoni species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Halovelia polhemi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Halovelia septentrionalis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Halovelia seychellensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Halovelia sulawesi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Halovelia sumaldei species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Halovelia tongaensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Halovelia wallacei species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1893	Halovelia Bergroth p. 277
1998	Halovelia Andersen p. 73
2001	Halovelia Andersen p. 425
2008	Halovelia Damgaard

References

Bergroth E. On two halophilous Hemiptera, The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 29, 277-279

Andersen N. M. (1998) Water striders from the Paleogene of Denmark and review of fossil record and evolution of semi aquatic bugs (Hemiptera Gerromorpha), Biologiske Skrifter 50, 1-157

Andersen N. M. (2001) Fossil water striders in the Oligocene/Miocene Dominican amber (Hemiptera: Gerromorpha), Insect Systematics & Evolution 31, 411-431

Damgaard J. (2008) Evolution of the semi-aquatic bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Gerromorpha) with a re-interpretation of the fossil record, Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 48, 251-268

Australian Faunal Directory, 2007 version. Available online at http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/abrs/online-resources/fauna/afd/ . - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

WoRMS (Mar 2013) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Schuh & Slater, 1995 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Andersen & Poinar, 1998 (fossil) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Ent. mon. Mag., 29 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Andersen, N. Møller, 1989: The coral bugs, genus Halovelia Bergroth (Hemiptera, Veliidae). I. History, classification, and taxonomy of species except the H. malaya-group. Entomologica Scandinavica, vol. 20, no. 1. 75-120. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Andersen, N. M. (1989). The coral bugs, Genus Halovelia Bergroth (Hemiptera, Veliidae). I. History, classification, and taxonomy of species except the H. malaya-group. Entomologica Scandinavica. 20(1):75-120. - via World Register of Marine Species

Cheng, L. (Ed.). (1976). Marine insects. North-Holland Publishing Company: Amsterdam, The Netherlands. ISBN 0-444-11213-8. XII, 581 pp. - via World Register of Marine Species

Aukema, Berend, and Christian Rieger, eds., 1995: null. Catalogue of the Heteroptera of the Palaearctic Region, vol. 1: Enicocephalomorpha, Dipsocoromorpha, Nepomorpha, Gerromorpha and Leptopodomorpha. xxvi + 222. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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