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Semiaquatic Bugs
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Semiaquatic Bugs

Gerromorpha

The Gerromorpha comprise an infraorder of insects in the "true bug" order Hemiptera. These "typical" bugs (suborder Heteroptera) are commonly called semiaquatic bugs or shore-inhabiting bugs. The Ochteroidea of the true water strider (infraorder Nepomorpha, a far more advanced lineage) are also found in shore habitat, while the Gerromorpha are actually most often encountered running around on the water surface, being kept from sinking by surface tension and their water-repellent legs. Well-known members of the Gerromorpha...

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4 branches of this group, most-observed first

Water Striders and Ripple Bugs

superfamilyGerroidea

Hydrometroids

superfamilyHydrometroidea

Mesovelioidea

superfamilyMesovelioidea

Velvet Water Bugs

superfamilyHebroidea

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 372861.