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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » True Bugs (Heteroptera) » Aquatic Bugs (Nepomorpha) » Corixoidea » Micronectidae » Synaptonecta » Synaptonecta issa

Species Synaptonecta issa

Classification · Explanation of Names · Range · Remarks · Works Cited
Synaptonecta issa (Distant) - Synaptonecta issa Synaptonecta issa
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Hemiptera (True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies)
Suborder Heteroptera (True Bugs)
Infraorder Nepomorpha (Aquatic Bugs)
Superfamily Corixoidea
Family Micronectidae
Genus Synaptonecta
Species issa (Synaptonecta issa)
Explanation of Names
Synaptonecta issa (Distant 1910)
Range
native to SE. Asia (India to Thailand & Java), recently accidentally introduced into FL & New Zealand, likely with commercial aquarium plants(1)
Remarks
earliest record in our area: FL 1993(1)
Works Cited
1.Synaptonecta issa (Heteroptera: Corixidae), first New World record of an Asian water bug in Florida
Polhemus, J. T. and R. P. Rutter. 1997. Entomological News 108 (4):300-304.
Contributed by Brady Richards on 28 September, 2015 - 9:48pm
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 29 September, 2015 - 1:08pm

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