Gerroidea

Gerroidea
Gerridae
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hemiptera
Suborder:	Heteroptera
Infraorder:	Gerromorpha
Superfamily:	Gerroidea

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.^[1][2]

Gerridae

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

1. "Gerroidea Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-10-14.
2. "Gerroidea superfamily Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-10-14.

Further reading

• Aukema, Berend; Rieger, Christian, eds. (1995). Catalogue of the Heteroptera of the Palaearctic Region, Vol. 1: Enicocephalomorpha, Dipsocoromorpha, Nepomorpha, Gerromorpha and Leptopodomorpha. The Netherlands Entomological Society. ISBN 978-90-71912-12-2.
• Bantock, T.; Botting, J. (2013). "British Bugs, an online identification guide to UK Hemiptera". Retrieved 2019-07-02.
• Cryan, Jason R.; Urban, Julie M. (2012). "Higher-level phylogeny of the insect order Hemiptera: is Auchenorrhyncha really paraphyletic?". Systematic Entomology. 37 (1): 7–21. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3113.2011.00611.x.

External links

• Media related to Gerroidea at Wikimedia Commons