Please help for to find information about of the whole life cycle of the next few Hemiptera species.

[TiercelR]

Hello, please can you help me to find information about of the whole life cycle of any or all of the next few Hemiptera species?

This information can be in a form of w-pages, titles of printed books, online or printed articles, etc.

All the help will be so much appreciated. Many thanks in advance.

Species (they are eight 8 different species):

Corisella edulis
Corisella mercenaria
Corisella texcocana
Krizousacorixa femorata
Krizousacorixa azteca
Graptocorixa abdominalis
Graptocorixa bimaculata
Notonecta unifasciata

 

[NMTs]

Hello, please can you help me to find information about of the whole life cycle of any or all of the next few Hemiptera species?

This information can be in a form of w-pages, titles of printed books, online or printed articles, etc.

All the help will be so much appreciated. Many thanks in advance.

Species (they are eight 8 different species):

Corisella edulis
Corisella mercenaria
Corisella texcocana
Krizousacorixa femorata
Krizousacorixa azteca
Graptocorixa abdominalis
Graptocorixa bimaculata
Notonecta unifasciata

Use this website https://bugguide.net/node/view/15740
Or use Google. Plug your species name into the search field and execute. Bugguide has links to cited references, so that should get you more info to look at.

What is your need for this information?

 

[TiercelR]

Use this website https://bugguide.net/node/view/15740
Or use Google. Plug your species name into the search field and execute. Bugguide has links to cited references, so that should get you more info to look at.

What is your need for this information?

Hi, thanks for the link!
I am very interested in to keep the most or all of these species in home made conditions, and in to breed them too in home made conditions, and watching successfully all their whole life cycle inside of aquarium tanks, or inside of another non-glass tanks. Thanks!

 

[NMTs]

Hi, thanks for the link!
I am very interested in to keep the most or all of these species in home made conditions, and in to breed them too in home made conditions, and watching successfully all their whole life cycle inside of aquarium tanks, or inside of another non-glass tanks. Thanks!

That's cool. Wasn't sure if you were doing some kind of research paper or something. Good luck to you!

 

[TiercelR]

That's cool. Wasn't sure if you were doing some kind of research paper or something. Good luck to you!

Many thanks!
I have not planned seriously to do a publication from this for to write a research paper (for the lonely purpose of to add a some more letters to my own curricular records for so to fatten out a few more its own text), but i am very interested in to write for my own personal records each part and all and every finding of all this plan. But i will be very happy fo to share here in the forum a some of the curious findings that i can be able of to watch in the future about of all this. Thanks!

 

[Salmonsaladsandwich]

Corixids and notonectids are both very understudied groups so you're not gonna find much if any info about individual species, you'll just have to experiment.

They have direct development so adults and juveniles should be able to live in the same conditions and feed on the same things.

Corixids are usually omnivorous scavengers/detrivores that comb through mud at the bottom of ponds and will feed on algae and other plant detritus, microbial films and other invertebrates (dead or alive), though a few seem to be strictly predatory (i don't know about any of the ones on the list). Corixids are generally tough and not at all sensitive to water quality (they breathe air and often live in stagnant pools), and they lay their eggs underwater, so if you throw them in an aquarium and offer a variety of foods they'll probably do well and quite possibly breed. I imagine that fish flakes or other fish food might work well since typical corixids are omnivores that can eat solid food (unique among hemipterans, they have weird mouthparts) and fish food typically contains a number of ingredients including algae and various animal protein sources. You can also try feeding them dead insects, small live foods like mosquito larvae, or just add detritus from their habitat (though in the latter case it might be hard to tell what it is they're actually feeding on). Putting dead leaves in a bucket of water with a little bit of detritus from a pond and leaving it out in the sun will probably cause algae and microbes that they can feed on to grow on the leaves and you can then put the leaves in the aquarium.

(here's a paper on corixid feeding habits that I'm basing this advice from- https://www.researchgate.net/public...ng_information_on_the_diet_of_aquatic_insects)

For Notonecta, those guys are predators and should eat live prey like mosquito larvae, and can also eat live insects dropped on the surface of the water. If they breed the young nymphs will probably need small prey (mosquito larvae or baby brine shrimp should work).

 

[TiercelR]

Corixids and notonectids are both very understudied groups so you're not gonna find much if any info about individual species, you'll just have to experiment.

They have direct development so adults and juveniles should be able to live in the same conditions and feed on the same things.

Corixids are usually omnivorous scavengers/detrivores that comb through mud at the bottom of ponds and will feed on algae and other plant detritus, microbial films and other invertebrates (dead or alive), though a few seem to be strictly predatory (i don't know about any of the ones on the list). Corixids are generally tough and not at all sensitive to water quality (they breathe air and often live in stagnant pools), and they lay their eggs underwater, so if you throw them in an aquarium and offer a variety of foods they'll probably do well and quite possibly breed. I imagine that fish flakes or other fish food might work well since typical corixids are omnivores that can eat solid food (unique among hemipterans, they have weird mouthparts) and fish food typically contains a number of ingredients including algae and various animal protein sources. You can also try feeding them dead insects, small live foods like mosquito larvae, or just add detritus from their habitat (though in the latter case it might be hard to tell what it is they're actually feeding on). Putting dead leaves in a bucket of water with a little bit of detritus from a pond and leaving it out in the sun will probably cause algae and microbes that they can feed on to grow on the leaves and you can then put the leaves in the aquarium.

(here's a paper on corixid feeding habits that I'm basing this advice from- https://www.researchgate.net/public...ng_information_on_the_diet_of_aquatic_insects)

For Notonecta, those guys are predators and should eat live prey like mosquito larvae, and can also eat live insects dropped on the surface of the water. If they breed the young nymphs will probably need small prey (mosquito larvae or baby brine shrimp should work).

Hello, thank you so much for all this so highly valuable information you told me and for the link!
This level of information do help me a lot for to know what things i need to include inside of the tanks for to give to the insects what they needs.

Becuse as adults they are flying insects too, i must to add very well fitted (but very breatheable) lids on all the tanks, and also to add the typical aquarium aereation systems for the well being of the algae (and for the well being of the micro fauna that will feed the omnivorous Hemiptera species --excluding the mosquito larvae that do breath the air directly from the surface too--). I know that these Hemiptera insects do breath directly the air from the surface of the water, but i want to avoid at all any stagnation of the water.
Thank you so much again!