Limnoporus

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Limnoporus
Limnoporus notabilis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Heteroptera
Family: Gerridae
Subfamily: Gerrinae
Genus: Limnoporus
Stål, 1868

Limnoporus is a genus of water striders in the family Gerridae. There are six extant described species in Limnoporus.[1][2][3]

Limnoporus rufoscutellatus

Species[edit]

These six current species belong to the genus Limnoporus:[4]

This one extinct species is known only from fossils:

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Limnoporus Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
  2. ^ "Limnoporus". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
  3. ^ Damgaard, Jakob; Moreira, Felipe Ferraz Figuiredo; Weir, Tom A.; Zettel, Herbert (2014). "Molecular phylogeny of the pond skaters (Gerrinae), discussion of the fossil record and a checklist of species assigned to the subfamily (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Gerridae)". Insect Systematics & Evolution. 45 (3): 251–281. doi:10.1163/1876312X-44042105.

Further reading[edit]

  • 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.

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