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Family Gerridae - Water Striders


Gerridae (water striders) of Idaho (Hemiptera)
By Biggam, R.C. & Brusven, M.A.
The Great Basin Naturalist 49(2):259-274, 1989
Includes a key to all of Gerridae of Idaho - which includes the 7 Gerris species known from Montana. Abstract available at https://www.jstor.org/stable/41712511.

The water-striders of Ontario (Heteroptera: Gerridae)
By Cheng L., Fernando C.H.
Royal Ontario Museum Life Sciences Miscellaneous Publications, 23 pp., 1970

The Gerridae or water striders of Oregon and Washington (Hemiptera: Heteroptera)
By Stonedahl G.M., Lattin J.D.
Oregon State U., Tech. Bull. 144, 36 pp., 1982

Patterns of postmating reproductive isolation in a newly discovered species pair, Aquarius remigis and A. remigoides...
By Gallant S.L., Fairbairn D.J.
Heredity 78: 571-577, 1997
Full title: Patterns of postmating reproductive isolation in a newly discovered species pair, Aquarius remigis and A. remigoides (Hemiptera; Gerridae)
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The Marine Insect Halobates (Heteroptera: Gerridae): Biology, Adaptations, Distribution, and Phylogeny
By Nils Moller Andersen & Lanna Cheng
Oceanography and Marine Biology: An Annual Review, 2004
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Phylogeny and taxonomy of water striders, genus Aquarius Schellenberg (...), with a new species from Australia
By Andersen N.M.
Steenstrupia 16: 37-81, 1990

Classification and phylogeny of the Holarctic water strider genus Limnoporus Stål (Hemiptera, Gerridae)
By Andersen N.M., Spence J.R.
Canadian J. Zool. 70: 753-785, 1992

Classification, phylogeny, and zoogeography of the pond skater genus Gerris Fabricius (Hemiptera: Gerridae)
By Andersen N.M.
Can. J. Zool. 71: 2473-2508, 1993