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The Backswimmers (Hemiptera: Notonectidae) of South Africa Compiled by Martin H. Villet Department of Zoology & Entomology, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, 6140 South Africa & Patrick Reavell Department of Botany, University of Zululand, South Africa

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Family: NOTONECTIDAE

1. Genus: NOTONECTA
   1. N. lactitans Kirkaldy

      Notonecta lactitans Kirkaldy 1897: 58

      = Notonecta lactitans stygica Kirkaldy 1897: 406.
      Western Cape; December to February.

      
      
   
   
2. Genus: ENITHARES
   1. E. sobria Stål

      Notonecta sobria Stål 1855: 89.
      Western Cape, Eastern Cape, KwaZulu-Natal, Gauteng and Northwestern Province, to Zimbabwe, Botswana and Namibia; November to April.

      
      
   2. E. glauca Bolivar

      Enithares glauca Bolivar 1879: 145

      = Enithares v-flavum Reuter 1882: 41.
      Western Cape, Eastern Cape, KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng, to Zimbabwe; January to April.

      
      
   3. E. chinai Jaczewski

      Enithares chinai Jaczewski 1927: 436.
      Western Cape, Eastern Cape, KwaZulu-Natal and Northern Province, to Zimbabwe; December to April.

      
      
   4. E. transvaalensis Poisson

      Enithares transvaalensis Poisson 1956: 359-360.
      Mpumalanga; May.

      
      
   
   
3. Genus: ANISOPS
   1. A. aglaia Hutchinson

      Anisops aglaia Hutchinson 1929: 404-406.
      Western Cape, Eastern Cape, Northern Cape and Gauteng; November and December.

      
      
   2. A. amaryllis Hutchinson

      Anisops amaryllis Hutchinson 1928: 258.
      Western Cape; December.

      
      
   3. A. kampalensis Hutchinson

      Anisops kampalensis Hutchinson 1928: 162.
      KwaZulu-Natal; April.

      
      
   4. A. pellucens Gerstaecker

      Anisops pellucens Gerstaecker 1873: 424.
      Mpumalanga, to Zimbabwe; April and May.

      
      
   5. A. komghai Reichart

      Anisops komghai Reichart 1980: 622-624.
      Eastern Cape

      
      
   6. A. varia Fieber

      Anisops varius Fieber 1851: 483-484

      = Anisops varia Puton 1899: 80

      = Anisops varia scutellata Fieber 1851: **.
      Western Cape, Eastern Cape, KwaZulu-Natal, Free State, Northern Cape, Northwestern Province, Gauteng, Mpumalanga and Northern Province, to Zimbabwe, Botswana, and Namibia; November to June.

      
      
   7. A. londti Truxal

      Anisops londti Truxal 1990: 90-92.
      ??

      
      
   8. A. jaczewskii Hutchinson

      Anisops jaczewskii Hutchinson 1928: 304.
      Northern Province

      
      
   9. A. psyche Hutchinson

      Anisops psyche Hutchinson 1928: 159-160.
      Northern Province, to Zimbabwe and Namibia; June.

      
      
   10. A. praetexta Hutchinson

       Anisops praetexta Hutchinson 1929: 402-403.
       Northern Province, to Zimbabwe

       
       
   11. A. arnoldi Truxal

       Anisops arnoldi Truxal 1990: 93-95.
       ??

       
       
   12. A. hancocki murati Poisson

       Anisops hancocki Hutchinson 1928: 163-164

       = Anisops murati Poisson 1939: 43.
       Western Cape, KwaZulu-Natal, to Namibia; December, April, June.

       
       
   13. A. ares Hutchinson

       Anisops ares Hutchinson 1928: 164-166

       = Anispos ares [sic] Hutchinson 1929: 95.
       ??

       
       
   14. A. sardea Herrich-Shaffer

       Anisops sardeus Herrich-Shaffer 1849: 41, 904

       = Anisops sardea Kirkaldy 1904: 114-116

       = Anisops nivea Spinola 1837: 58 ( nec Fabricius)

       = Anisops productus Fieber 1847: 16 ( nomen nudem )

       = Anisops natalensis Stål 1858: 89.
       Western Cape, Eastern Cape, KwaZulu-Natal, Gauteng and Northern Province, to Namibia; November, April.

       
       
   15. A. graciloides Brooks

       Anisops graciloides Brookes 1951: 434-435.
       ??

       
       
   16. A. gracilis Hutchinson

       Anisops gracilis Hutchinson 1929: 386-388.
       Western Cape, Eastern Cape, Gauteng and Northern Province, to Zimbabwe; December.

       
       
   17. A. poweri Hutchinson

       Anisops poweri Hutchinson 1929: 389-390.
       Western Cape, Eastern Cape, Lesotho and Gauteng; April.

       
       
   18. A. debilis Gerstaecker

       Anisops debilis Gersaeker 1873: 425.
       Western Cape, Eastern Cape, KwaZulu-Natal, Northwestern Province and Northern Province, to Zimbabwe, Botswana and Namibia; December to June.

       
       
   19. A. hypatia Hutchinson

       Anisops hypatia Hutchinson 1929: 399-400.
       Western Cape and Eastern Cape

       
       
   20. A. balcis Hutchinson

       Anisops balcis Hutchinson 1930: 447

       = Anisops damasi Poisson 1949: 51.
       Western Cape; December.

       
       
   21. A. krugeri Poisson

       Anisops krugeri Poisson 1956: 364-366..
       Mpumalanga; May.

       
       
   22. A. letitia Hutchinson

       Anisops letitia Hutchinson 1929: 385-386.
       Eastern Cape

       
       
   
   
4. Genus: NYCHIA
   1. N. limpida Stål

      Nychia limpida Stål ??.

      = Antipalocoris marshalli Scott 1872: 244.
      Western Cape, Eastern Cape, Northwestern Province, Gauteng, Mpumalanga and Northern Province, to Botswana and Zimbabwe; January to April.