NOTONECTIDAE
(backswimmers)

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Notonecta
backswimmers
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 		Genus 2 subtaxa 27 images 2 ident. refs
Taxonomic hierarchy:
FamilyNOTONECTIDAE (backswimmers)
SuperfamilyNOTONECTOIDEA (backswimmers)
InfraorderNepomorpha (an infraorder of waterbugs)
SuborderHETEROPTERA (true bugs)
OrderHEMIPTERA (bugs)
Division Exopterygota (earwigs, grasshoppers, stoneflies, true bugs, and other insects with wings developing externally)
InfraclassNeoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
SubclassPTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
ClassINSECTA (true insects)
SubphylumHEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
PhylumARTHROPODA (arthropods)
SuperphylumECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
CladeBilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
SubkingdomEUMETAZOA (metazoans)
KingdomANIMALIA (animals)
DomainEukaryota (eukaryotes)
LifeBIOTA (living things)

Identification Works

AuthorYearTitleSource
Macan, T.T. 1976 *** A revised key to the British water bugs (Hemiptera-Heteroptera), with notes on their ecology ***(Superseded) Scientific publications, No 16, Freshwater Biological Association

NOTONECTIDAE (backswimmers) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for NOTONECTIDAE (backswimmers)
BioInfoBioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 0 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for NOTONECTIDAE (backswimmers)
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