Gerroidea Explained

Gerroidea is a superfamily of semiaquatic bugs in the order Hemiptera. There are at least 3 families and more than 2,000 described species in Gerroidea.

Families

These three families belong to the superfamily Gerroidea:

• Gerridae Leach, 1815 (water striders)
• Hermatobatidae Coutière & Martin, 1901
• Veliidae Amyot & Serville, 1843 (smaller water striders or riffle bugs)

Further reading

• Book: Catalogue of the Heteroptera of the Palaearctic Region, Vol. 1: Enicocephalomorpha, Dipsocoromorpha, Nepomorpha, Gerromorpha and Leptopodomorpha. 1995. Aukema . Berend. Rieger . Christian. The Netherlands Entomological Society. 978-90-71912-12-2.
• Web site: 2019-07-02. British Bugs, an online identification guide to UK Hemiptera. 2013. Bantock . T.. Botting . J..
• Higher-level phylogeny of the insect order Hemiptera: is Auchenorrhyncha really paraphyletic?. 2012. Cryan . Jason R.. Urban . Julie M.. Systematic Entomology. 37. 1. 7–21. 10.1111/j.1365-3113.2011.00611.x.