Aquarius (bug)

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Aquarius
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Aquarius najas
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Hemiptera
Suborder:
Heteroptera
Infraorder:
Gerromorpha
Superfamily:
Gerroidea
Family:
Gerridae
Subfamily:
Gerrinae
Genus:
Aquarius

Schellenberg, 1800

Aquarius is a genus of water striders found predominantly in the northern hemisphere. Formerly a subgenus, Aquarius was elevated to generic rank in 1990 on the basis of phylogenetic analysis.[1][2] These are among the world's largest water striders, with females averaging 12–17 mm (0.47–0.67 in) long and males roughly 10–30% smaller, depending on the exact species. An outlier is A. elongatus where both sexes typically are about 24 mm (0.94 in), roughly the same as certain , and second only to Gigantometra gigas.[3]

Species[]

There are 17 species in the genus Aquarius:[4]

  • (Dohrn, 1860)
  • (Drake & Harris, 1938)
  • (Kirkaldy, 1899)
  • (Berg, 1881)
  • (Puton, 1869)
  • Aquarius conformis (Uhler, 1878)
  • (Horváth, 1899)
  • (Uhler, 1896)
  • Andersen, 1990
  • D.A. Polhemus & J.T. Polhemus, 1994
  • Aquarius najas (De Geer, 1773)
  • Aquarius nebularis (Drake & Hottes, 1925)
  • (Fabricius, 1794)
  • Zettel & Ruiz, 2003
  • Aquarius remigis (Say, 1832)
  • Gallant & Fairbairn, 1996
  • (Fieber, 1861)

References[]

  1. ^ Andersen, Nils Møller (1990). "Phylogeny and taxonomy of water striders, genus Aquarius Schellenberg (Insecta, Hemiptera, Gerridae)., with a new species from Australia". Steenstrupia. 16 (4): 37–81.
  2. ^ Gallant, Sharon L.; Fairbairn, Daphne J. (1996). "A New Species of Aquarius from the Southeastern United States, with Electrophoretic Analysis of the Clade Containing Gerris, Limnoporus, and Aquarius (Hemiptera: Gerridae)". Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 89 (5): 637–644. doi:10.1093/aesa/89.5.637.
  3. ^ Andersen, N.M. (1997). "A phylogenetic analysis of the evolution of sexual dimorphism and mating systems in water striders (Hemiptera: Gerridae)". Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 61 (3): 345–368. doi:10.1006/bijl.1996.0130.
  4. ^ 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.


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