Gerroidea

{{Short description|Superfamily of true bugs}}

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| image_caption = Gerridae

| taxon = Gerroidea

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Gerroidea is a superfamily of semiaquatic bugs in the order Hemiptera. There are at least 3 families and more than 2,000 described species in Gerroidea.

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Families

These three families belong to the superfamily Gerroidea:

  • Gerridae Leach, 1815 (water striders)
  • Hermatobatidae Coutière & Martin, 1901
  • Veliidae Amyot & Serville, 1843 (smaller water striders or riffle bugs)

References

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{{Cite web| title=Gerroidea Report

| url=https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=676832

| website=Integrated Taxonomic Information System

| access-date=2019-10-14

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{{Cite web| title=Gerroidea superfamily Information

| url=https://bugguide.net/node/view/1043928

| website=BugGuide.net

| access-date=2019-10-14

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Further reading

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  • {{Cite book

| title = Catalogue of the Heteroptera of the Palaearctic Region, Vol. 1: Enicocephalomorpha, Dipsocoromorpha, Nepomorpha, Gerromorpha and Leptopodomorpha

| date = 1995

| editor-last1 = Aukema | editor-first1 = Berend

| editor-last2 = Rieger | editor-first2 = Christian

| publisher = The Netherlands Entomological Society

| isbn = 978-90-71912-12-2

}}

  • {{Cite web

| access-date = 2019-07-02

| title = British Bugs, an online identification guide to UK Hemiptera

| date = 2013

| last1 = Bantock | first1 = T.

| last2 = Botting | first2 = J.

| url = http://www.britishbugs.org.uk/

}}

  • {{Cite journal

| title = Higher-level phylogeny of the insect order Hemiptera: is Auchenorrhyncha really paraphyletic?

| date = 2012

| last1 = Cryan | first1 = Jason R.

| last2 = Urban | first2 = Julie M.

| journal = Systematic Entomology

| volume = 37| issue = 1| pages = 7–21

| doi = 10.1111/j.1365-3113.2011.00611.x

}}

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