Micronectidae Explained

Micronectidae is a family of water boatmen often referred to as pygmy water boatmen. They were originally classified as a subfamily under Corixidae but were raised to family level by Nieser (2002).^[1]

There are two subfamilies, Micronectinae with 6 genera and Synaptogobiinae with one genus.

Subfamilies and genera

• Micronectinae
  • Austronecta Tinerella, 2013
  • Micronecta Kirkaldy, 1897
  • Monogobia Nieser & Chen, 2006
  • Papuanecta Tinerella, 2008
  • Synaptonecta Lundblad, 1933
  • Tenagobia Bergroth, 1899
• Synaptogobiinae
  • Synaptogobia Nieser & Chen, 2006

Data sources: i = ITIS, c = Catalogue of Life, g = GBIF, b = Bugguide.net

Further reading

• Book: Arnett . Ross H. Jr.. 2000. American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press. 2nd. 0-8493-0212-9.
• Book: Aukema . Berend. Rieger . Christian. 1995. Catalogue of the Heteroptera of the Palaearctic Region, vol. 1: Enicocephalomorpha, Dipsocoromorpha, Nepomorpha, Gerromorpha and Leptopodomorpha. The Netherlands Entomological Society. 90-71912-12-4.
• Web site: 2018-04-20. Bantock . T.. Botting . J.. 2013. British Bugs, an online identification guide to UK Hemiptera.
• Book: Blatchley . W.S.. 1926. Heteroptera, or true bugs of eastern North America, with especial reference to the faunas of Indiana and Florida. Nature Publishing. 10.5962/bhl.title.6871. free.
• Book: Henry . Thomas J.. Froeschner . Richard C.. 1988. Catalog of the Heteroptera, or True Bugs, of Canada and the Continental United States. E. J. Brill. 0-916846-44-X.
• Majka . C.. 2009. Thomas L. Casey and Rhode Island. ZooKeys. 22. 267–283. 10.3897/zookeys.22.93. free.
• Stys . Pavel. Jansson . Antti. 1988. Check-list of recent family-group and genus-group names of Nepomorpha (Heteroptera) of the world. Acta Entomologica Fennica. 50. 1–44. 0001-561X.
• Book: Walker . Francis. 1871. Catalogue of the Specimens of Hemiptera Heteroptera in the Collection of the British Museum, pt. IV. British Museum. 10.5962/bhl.title.9254. free.

Notes and References

1. Nieser . Nico . 2002 . Guide to aquatic Heteroptera of Singapore and Peninsular Malaysia. IV. Corixoidea. . The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology . 50 . 1 . 263-274 .