Biology:Limnoporus

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Short description: Genus of true bugs

Limnoporus
Water Strider on Lily Lake (15058406212).jpg
Limnoporus notabilis
Scientific classification e
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

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

This one extinct species is known only from fossils:

  • Limnoporus wilsoni Andersen, 1998

References

  1. "Limnoporus Report". https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=103872. Retrieved 2019-09-23. 
  2. "Limnoporus". https://www.gbif.org/species/2020446. 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

  • Catalogue of the Heteroptera of the Palaearctic Region, Vol. 1: Enicocephalomorpha, Dipsocoromorpha, Nepomorpha, Gerromorpha and Leptopodomorpha. The Netherlands Entomological Society. 1995. ISBN 978-90-71912-12-2. 

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q10562281 entry