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Pleidae
Sign in to savePleidae, the pygmy backswimmers, is a family of aquatic insects in the order Hemiptera (infraorder Nepomorpha, or "true water bugs"). There are 52 species in four genera, distributed across most of the world, except the polar regions and remote oceanic islands.
Species
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassInsecta
- OrderHemiptera
- FamilyPleidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 604
- With media
- 7
- Family
- Pleidae
- Collections
- LCDI, UNM, UHIM, FMNH, INHS, AM
- Recorded in
- United States, Vietnam, Bolivia, South Africa, Kenya
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Notonectoidea
- Image
- Plea minutissima MHNT.jpg
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- topic's main category
- Category:Pleidae
- taxon common name
- dvergsvømmere
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Encyclopedic overview
5 sectionsContents
- Distribution
- Description
- Ecology
- Footnotes
- References
Pleidae, the pygmy backswimmers, is a family of aquatic insects in the order Hemiptera (infraorder Nepomorpha, or "true water bugs"). There are 52 species in four genera, distributed across most of the world, except the polar regions and remote oceanic islands.
Pleidae belong to the Tripartita which contains the more advanced lineages of true water bugs, and are closely related to the true backswimmers (Notonectidae), but closer still to the Helotrephidae, another family of tiny Nepomorpha, which usually swim upside-down and, like the Pleidae, have a sensory organ in the center of the clypeus. Either the pygmy backswimmers are united with the Helotrephidae in the superfamily Pleoidea, or these two and the true backswimmers are placed in a single superfamily Notonectoidea.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pleidae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.