Corixidae is a family of aquatic insects in the order Hemiptera. They are found worldwide in virtually any freshwater habitat and a few species live in saline water.[1] There are about 500 known species worldwide, in 55 genera, including the genus Sigara.
Members of the Corixidae are commonly known as water boatmen, a term that is sometimes used in the United Kingdom for Notonecta glauca, an insect of a different family, Notonectidae. Corixa punctata is the "lesser water boatman".[2]
^Randall T. Schuh; James Alexander Slater (1996). True Bugs of the World (Hemiptera:Heteroptera): Classification and Natural History (2 ed.). Cornell University Press. pp. 119–122. ISBN 978-0801420665.
^BBC Science and Nature: Water boatman, common backswimmer Notonecta glauca Retrieved on 2008-07-26
Corixidae is a family of aquatic insects in the order Hemiptera. They are found worldwide in virtually any freshwater habitat and a few species live in...
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is a genus of aquatic insects in the family Micronectidae (formerly in Corixidae). Micronecta at Fauna Europaea Micronecta at the Microcosmos of Pond and...
absorption of water by the eggs of Corixa punctata Illig. (Hemiptera, Corixidae) under experimental conditions." The Journal of Experimental Biology 26:...
5 to 1.5 cm (0.2–0.6 in) in length. They are similar in appearance to Corixidae (water boatmen), but can be separated by differences in their dorsal-ventral...
jam jar in and out. Stridulatory sounds are produced among the aquatic Corixidae and Notonectidae (backswimmers) using tibial combs rubbed across rostral...
punctata, a species known as the lesser water boatman in the United Kingdom Corixidae, a family known as water boatmen in the United States and Australia Notonecta...
Sigara is a genus of water boatmen in the family Corixidae. Some species within this genus are halophiles; for example, occurrences of the genus have...
environment. For instance, aquatic edible insects such as water boatmen (family Corixidae) and dragonfly larvae have a fish flavor, while diving beetles taste more...
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Graptocorixa abdominalis is a species of water boatman in the family Corixidae. It is found in Central America and North America. "Graptocorixa abdominalis...
was most likely made by aquatic insects called water boatmen (Family Corixidae), or similar insects, based on the general similarity of the fossil trackways...
pygmy water boatmen. They were originally classified as a subfamily under Corixidae but were raised to family level by Nieser (2002). There are two subfamilies...
Corixa is a genus of aquatic bugs in the family Corixidae. The fossil species C. elegans is from the Rott Formation in Nordrhein-Westfalen (Oligocene...
acuminate water boatman, is a species of water boatman in the family Corixidae. It is found in Central America and North America. "Ramphocorixa acuminata...
Polhemus, J. T.; Rutter, R. P. (1997). "Synaptonecta issa (Heteroptera: Corixidae), first New World record of an Asian water bug in Florida". Entomological...
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