VELIIDAE
(water crickets)

VELIIDAE (water crickets) may be included in 'feeds on' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

VELIIDAE (water crickets) may be included in 'fed on by' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

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references
Microvelia
a genus of water crickets
Genus 1 references
Taxonomic hierarchy:
FamilyVELIIDAE (water crickets)
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 VELIIDAE (water crickets)

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Macan, T.T. 1976 *** A revised key to the British water bugs (Hemiptera-Heteroptera), with notes on their ecology ***(Superseded) Scientific publications, No 16, Freshwater Biological Association

VELIIDAE (water crickets) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

Literature listed under the following higher taxa may be relevant to VELIIDAE (water crickets):

BioImagesBioImages (www.bioimages.org.uk) has 17 images of VELIIDAE (water crickets)
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