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Family Micronectidae


Synaptonecta issa (Heteroptera: Corixidae), first New World record of an Asian water bug in Florida
By Polhemus, J. T. and R. P. Rutter
Entomological News 108 (4):300-304., 1997

Three aquatic true bugs (Hem.: Heteroptera) newly reported in Illinois, with keys to Hesperocorixa (Corixidae) and Notonectidae
By Swanson D.R., Bilger E.E.
Ent. News 130: 1‒18, 2021
Full title: Three aquatic true bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) newly reported in Illinois, with keys to Hesperocorixa (Corixidae) and Notonectidae of Illinois
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Phylogeny of the true water bugs (Nepomorpha: Hemiptera–Heteroptera) based on 16S and 28S rDNA and morphology
By M.B. Hebsgaard, N.M. Andersen, & J. Damgaard
Systematic Entomology 29: 488-508, 2004

Aquatic and semiaquatic Hemiptera of Mississippi
By Wilson C.A.
Tulane Studies in Zoology 6: 113‒170, 1958

New Hemiptera-Heteroptera, with comments upon the distribution of certain known species
By Barber, H.G.
New York J Ent Soc 22: 164-171., 1914
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Barber, H.G. (1914) New Hemiptera-Heteroptera, with comments upon the distribution of certain known species. New York J Ent Soc 22: 164-171.

Notes on synonymy and nomenclature of Palaeartic Heteroptera
By I.M. Kerzhner
Zoosystematica Rossica, 1993
Established synonymies in Nabidae, Miridae, Piesmatidae, Lygaeidae, Acanthosomatidae, Pentatomidae, Scutelleridae, Lygaeidae.

A synopsis of the Hemiptera-Heteroptera of America north of Mexico
By Torre-Bueno J.R. de la
Ent. amer. 19: 141‒304 & 21: 41‒122, 1939
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True Bugs (Heteroptera) of the Neotropics
By Panizzi A.R., Grazia J., eds.
Springer. xxii+901 pp., 2015