| Corixidae Temporal range:
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| Hesperocorixa castanea | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hemiptera |
| Suborder: | Heteroptera |
| Infraorder: | Nepomorpha |
| Family: | Corixidae Leach, 1815 |
| Subfamilies, Genera | |
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52 genera in 5 subfamilies | |
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 lesser water boatmen: the term used in the United Kingdom to distinguish species such as Corixa punctata[2] from Notonecta glauca, or greater water-boatman, an insect of a different family, Notonectidae.
- ^ 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