Limnoporus

Limnoporus is a genus of water striders in the family Gerridae. There are six extant described species in Limnoporus.^[1][2][3]

Limnoporus rufoscutellatus

Limnoporus
Limnoporus notabilis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hemiptera
Suborder:	Heteroptera
Family:	Gerridae
Subfamily:	Gerrinae
Genus:	Limnoporus Stål, 1868

Species

These six current species belong to the genus Limnoporus:^[4]

• 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

References

1. "Limnoporus Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
2. "Limnoporus". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
3. "Limnoporus genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
4. Damgaard, Jakob; Moreira, Felipe Ferraz Figuiredo; Weir, Tom A.; Zettel, Herbert (2014). "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.

Further reading

• Aukema, Berend; Rieger, Christian, eds. (1995). Catalogue of the Heteroptera of the Palaearctic Region, Vol. 1: Enicocephalomorpha, Dipsocoromorpha, Nepomorpha, Gerromorpha and Leptopodomorpha. The Netherlands Entomological Society. ISBN 978-90-71912-12-2.

External links

• Media related to Limnoporus at Wikimedia Commons