Limnoporus
| Limnoporus | |
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| Limnoporus notabilis | |
Scientific classification 
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| 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]
Species
[edit]These six current species belong to the genus Limnoporus:[4]
- Limnoporus canaliculatus (Say, 1832)
- Limnoporus dissortis (Drake & Harris, 1930)
- Limnoporus esakii (Miyamoto, 1958)
- Limnoporus genitalis (Miyamoto, 1958)
- Limnoporus notabilis (Drake & Hottes, 1925)
- Limnoporus rufoscutellatus (Latreille, 1807)
This one extinct species is known only from fossils:
- Limnoporus wilsoni Andersen, 1998
References
[edit]- ^ "Limnoporus Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
- ^ "Limnoporus". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
- ^ "Limnoporus genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
- ^ 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.
External links
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