GERRIDAE
(pond skaters)

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Taxonomic hierarchy:
FamilyGERRIDAE (pond skaters)
SuperfamilyGERROIDEA (a superfamily of bugs)
InfraorderGerromorpha (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Macan, T.T. 1976 *** A revised key to the British water bugs (Hemiptera-Heteroptera), with notes on their ecology ***(Superseded) Scientific publications, No 16, Freshwater Biological Association

GERRIDAE (pond skaters) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

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