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| | Family Identification - Gerridae (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) |
 | | Species in the family Gerridae are distinguished from water-striding Veliidae by noting that the middle legs of the latter arise about midway between the front and hind legs. |
 | | Some veliids are known as broad-shouldered water striders owing to the abdomen tapering posteriorly from the relatively wide mesothorax. |
 | | Families of Hemiptera: Corixidae, Notonectidae, Nepidae, Belostomatidae, Gerridae, Miridae, Phymatidae, Reduviidae, Lygaeidae, Coreidae, Pentatomidae. |
| eny3005.ifas.ufl.edu /lab1/Hemiptera/Gerrid.htm (188 words) |
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