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Gerris (water strider)

Insecta - Hemiptera - Gerridae

Taxonomy

Gerris was named by Fabricius (1794). It is extant.

It was assigned to Ryngota by Fabricius (1794); to Hemiptera by Latreille (1796); to Ryngota by Fabricius (1798); to Cimicides by Latreille (1802); to Hydrometraedes by Theobald (1937); to Gerrini by Statz (1950); to Gerrinae by Nel and Paicheler (1993); and to Gerridae by Handlirsch (1910), Andersen (2000) and Wappler (2003).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1794	Gerris Fabricius p. 187
1796	Gerris Latreille p. 85
1798	Gerris Fabricius p. 543
1802	Gerris Latreille p. 250
1910	Gerris Handlirsch p. 126
1937	Gerris Theobald p. 254
1950	Gerris Statz p. 72
1993	Gerris Nel and Paicheler p. 81
2000	Gerris Andersen p. 269
2003	Gerris Wappler

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Ecdysozoa
—	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Latreille 1829
superclass	Hexapoda	Latreille 1825
class	Insecta
—	Dicondylia
—	Paranotalia
subclass	Pterygota	()
—	Neopterygota	Crampton 1924

Rank	Name	Author
infraclass	Neoptera	Martynov 1923
—	Clareocercaria
—	Acercaria	()
superorder	Pancondylognatha
—	Condylognatha
order	Hemiptera
suborder	Heteroptera
infraorder	Gerromorpha	Popov 1971
superfamily	Gerroidea	Leach 1815
family	Gerridae	Leach 1815
subfamily	Gerrinae	Leach 1815
genus	Gerris

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. Gerris Fabricius 1794 [water strider]

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Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

chitinc

Environment:

terrestrialc

Locomotion:

actively mobilep

Created:

2017-04-17 09:56:18

Modified:

2017-04-17 09:56:18

Source: c = class, p = phylum

References: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015

Age range: base of the MP 13 to the top of the Late/Upper Pleistocene or 48.60000 to 0.01170 Ma

Collections (6 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
MP 13	48.6 - 40.4	Germany (Eifel)	Gerris sp. (135642 138912)
Priabonian	38.0 - 33.9	United Kingdom (England)	Gerris sp. (21976)
Priabonian	38.0 - 33.9	Denmark	Gerris sp. (123762)
Chattian	28.1 - 23.03	Germany (North Rhine-Westphalia)	Gerris sp. (122010)
Late/Upper Pleistocene	0.129 - 0.0117	USA (Washington)	Gerris sp. (167662)