Anisops

{{Short description|Genus of insects}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Anisops debilis - July 2023.jpg

| image_caption = Anisops debilis

| taxon = Anisops

| authority = Spinola, 1837

| type_species = Notovecta nivea

| type_species_authority = Fabricius, 1775

}}

Anisops is a genus of insects in the family Notonectidae.{{cite web |title=Common Backswimmers (Genus Anisops) |url=https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/311506-Anisops |website=iNaturalist |access-date=2024-11-18 |language=en-US}}{{Cite book |last=Spinola |first=Maximilian |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.65481 |title=Essai sur les genres d'insectes appartenants a l'ordre des hemiptères, Lin., ou rhyngotes, Fab., et à la section des heteroptères, Dufour / para Maximilien Spinola |date=1837 |publisher=Y. Gravier |location=Gênes}} They're sometimes referred to as backswimmers, so called because they swim upside down.