Microvelia

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Paraneoptera
Superordo: Condylognatha
Ordo: Hemiptera
Subordo: Heteroptera
Infraordo: Gerromorpha
Superfamilia: Gerroidea

Familia: Veliidae
Subfamilia: Microveliinae
Tribus: Microveliini
Genus: Microvelia
Subgenera: Austromicrovelia – Barbivelia – Drepanovelia – Lacertovelia – Microvelia – Microveliopsis – Nesidiovelia – Pacificovelia – Petrovelia – Phoreticovelia – Picaultia – Tarsoveloides – ...
Name

Microvelia Westwood, 1834: Ann. Soc. ent. France, 3, 647.
References

Andersen, N.M.; Weir, T.A. 2003: The genus Microvelia Westwood in Australia (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Veliidae). Invertebrate systematics, 17(2): 261–348. DOI: 10.1071/IS02001
Drake, C.J., 1951: New Neotropical water-striders (Hemiptera-Veliidae). Great Basin Naturalist, 11: 37–42. Full article BHL.Reference page.
Padilla-Gil, D.N.; Moreira, F.F.F. 2013: Two new species of Microvelia Westwood, 1834 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Veliidae) from Colombia, with a key to Colombian species. Zootaxa 3745(5): 587–595. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3745.5.7 Reference page.
Rúdio, J.A.; Moreira, F.F.F. 2011: A new species of Microvelia (Insecta: Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Gerromorpha) from coastal Espírito Santo State, with a key to the species of the genus recorded from southeastern Brazil. Zootaxa, 3004: 63–68. Preview

Microvelia is a genus of aquatic bugs in the family Veliidae.[1][2] There are at least 230 described species in Microvelia.[1][3][4][5]
Species

List of Microvelia species

References

"Microvelia Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 30 April 2018.
Andersen, Nils Møller (1999). "Microvelia polhemi, n. sp. (Heteroptera: Veliidae) from Dominican amber: The first fossil record of a phytotelmic water strider". Journal of the New York Entomological Society. 107 (2/3): 135–144. JSTOR 25010306.
"Browse Microvelia". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 30 April 2018.
"Microvelia". GBIF. Retrieved 30 April 2018.
"Microvelia Genus: Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 30 April 2018.