GERRIDAE
(pond skaters)

GERRIDAE (pond skaters) may be included in 'feeds on' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

GERRIDAE (pond skaters) may be included in 'fed on by' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

Taxonomic hierarchy:
FamilyGERRIDAE (pond skaters)
SuperfamilyGERROIDEA (a superfamily of bugs)
InfraorderGerromorpha (an infraorder of waterbugs)
SuborderHETEROPTERA (true bugs)
OrderHEMIPTERA (bugs)
Division Exopterygota (earwigs, grasshoppers, stoneflies, true bugs, and other insects with wings developing externally)
InfraclassNeoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
SubclassPTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
ClassINSECTA (true insects)
SubphylumHEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
PhylumARTHROPODA (arthropods)
SuperphylumECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
CladeBilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
SubkingdomEUMETAZOA (metazoans)
KingdomANIMALIA (animals)
DomainEukaryota (eukaryotes)
LifeBIOTA (living things)
NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for GERRIDAE (pond skaters)

Identification Works

Handling & MagnificationAuthorYearTitleSource
Macan, T.T. 1976 *** A revised key to the British water bugs (Hemiptera-Heteroptera), with notes on their ecology ***(Superseded) Scientific publications, No 16, Freshwater Biological Association

GERRIDAE (pond skaters) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

General Works

AuthorYearTitleSource

Acid Mires

Boyce, D. 2004 A review of the invertebrate assemblages of acid mires Research Reports, Report no 592, 109pp, English Nature

Literature listed under the following higher taxa may also be relevant to GERRIDAE (pond skaters):

BioImagesBioImages (www.bioimages.org.uk) has 53 images of GERRIDAE (pond skaters)
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