Gerrinae

Gerrinae
Gerris lacustris
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Heteroptera
Family: Gerridae
Subfamily: Gerrinae
Leach, 1815

Gerrinae is a subfamily of water strider. This subfamily includes the largest and most best-known group of Gerridae. They are also a phylogenetic subfamily made up of two tribes, and ~14 genera. [1][2]

  1. ^ Carnegie Museum; Museum, Carnegie; History, Carnegie Museum of Natural (1934). Annals of the Carnegie Museum. Vol. v.23 (1934). [Pittsburgh]: Published by authority of the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Institute.
  2. ^ Damgaard, Jakob; Moreira, Felipe Ferraz Figueiredo; Weir, Tom A.; Zettel, Herbert (2014-07-24). "Molecular phylogeny of the pond skaters (Gerrinae), discussion of the fossil record and a checklist of species assigned to the subfamily (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Gerridae)". Insect Systematics & Evolution. 45 (3): 251–281. doi:10.1163/1876312X-44042105. ISSN 1876-312X.