Gerroidea
{{Short description|Superfamily of true bugs}}
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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.
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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External links
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Category:Hemiptera superfamilies
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