Limnoporus Explained

Limnoporus is a genus of water striders in the family Gerridae. There are six extant described species in Limnoporus.

Species

These six current species belong to the genus Limnoporus:^[1]

• Limnoporus canaliculatus (Say, 1832)
• Limnoporus dissortis (Drake & Harris, 1930)
• Limnoporus esakii (Miyamoto, 1958)
• Limnoporus genitalis (Miyamoto, 1958)
• Limnoporus notabilis (Drake & Hottes, 1925)
• Limnoporus rufoscutellatus (Latreille, 1807)

This one extinct species is known only from fossils:

• Limnoporus wilsoni Andersen, 1998

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.

Notes and References

1. Jakob . Damgaard . Felipe Ferraz Figuiredo . Moreira . Tom A. . Weir . Herbert . Zettel . Molecular phylogeny of the pond skaters (Gerrinae), discussion of the fossil record and a checklist of species assigned to the subfamily (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Gerridae) . 2014 . Insect Systematics & Evolution . 45 . 3 . 251–281 . 10.1163/1876312X-44042105.