Appasus urinator urinator Dufour, 1863

Novoselsky, Tanya, Chen, Ping-Ping & Nieser, Nico, 2018, A review of the giant water bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Nepomorpha: Belostomatidae) of Israel, Israel Journal of Entomology (Oxford, England) 48 (1), pp. 119-141 : 124-126

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scientific name	Appasus urinator urinator Dufour, 1863
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Appasus urinator urinator Dufour, 1863 View in CoL

( Figs 5–7, 16, 20, 26, 31, 49)

Appasus urinator Dufour, 1863: 393 View in CoL ; Polhemus 1995 a: 20 (synonymy).

Material examined: Israel: Central Coastal Plain : 2♂ Nehar Yarden , 32°41'53.0"N 35°33'57.4"E, 21.v.2018, T. Eshcoly GoogleMaps ; 2♂ Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv University , 13.vii.2011, A. Shlagman. Golan Heights : 1♂ Mizpe Golani [Tel Faher], 22.viii.1981, J. Margalit. Hula and Korazim Block : 1♂ ' Enot ' Enan , 13.vii.2011, L. Friedman ; 23♂ 4♀ HaHula Nature Reserve [33°04'N 35°36'E], 5–6.vii.1934 (1♂ 1♀), 1.iii.1956 (11♂), 8.vi.1958, L. Fishelsohn (2♂ 1♀), 16.x.1961, A. Ar & L. Fishelsohn (1♂ 1♀), 25.xii.1963, J. Margalit & S. Blondheim (2♂), 5.viii.1964, J. Margalit (2♂ 1♀), 6.vii.1977, A. Freidberg (1♂), 21.ix.1999 (1♂), 3.v.2005, A. Gazit (1♂, reared in Tel Aviv by A. Shlagman), 24.v.2010, G. Wizen (1♂) GoogleMaps ; 2♂ GoogleMaps Sede Nehemya, 17.viii.1957, 1.vi.1972, Y. Palmoni. Jordan Valley : 2♂ Deganya A, 14.vi.1955, 19.iv.1964, Y. Palmoni. Lower Galilee : 1♂ Huqoq, 9.viii.1986 R. Ortal. Upper Galilee Hills : 7♂ 2♀ Dan , 9.vii.1979, E. ZchoriFein, on cotton (7♂), 9–15.vii.1979, E. Zchori (2♀) ; 1♂ ' En Gome , 24.v.2017, L. Goren .

Previous records from Israel: Bodenheimer (1937: 209) reports the species from “Palestine” as Nepoides urinator (Duf.) , Linnavuori (1960: 51) as Sphaerodema urinator (Df.) , and Polhemus (1995 a: 20) as Appasus urinator urinator .

Distribution: Egypt, Iraq, Israel ( Fig. 49), tropical Africa ( Linnavuori 1960; Tawfik et al. 1978; Polhemus 1995 a; Estévez & Ribeiro 2011).

Phenology in Israel: Larvae of this species were collected in March, July, August and October, adults were collected in April–June, August–September and December.

Biology: Appasus urinator dwells in lakes, ponds, marshes and rice fields, and preys on a wide range of other aquatic organisms, such as insects, mosquito larvae and pupae, snails and other soft-bodied animals. The bug larvae apparently have a preference for mosquito larvae and pupae. In Egypt the species has two to three generations per year ( Tawfik et al. 1978).