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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 » Water Boatmen (Corixidae) » Corixinae » Corixini » Hesperocorixa

Genus Hesperocorixa

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Works Cited
Water boatman, does anyone know the species. - Hesperocorixa Water boatman - Hesperocorixa laevigata Water Boatman - Hesperocorixa laevigata Hesperocorixa interrupta - male Hesperocorixa sp. - Hesperocorixa Hesperocorixa semilucida Hesperocorixa minorella - male Hesperocorixa laevigata? - Hesperocorixa laevigata - female
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 Corixidae (Water Boatmen)
Subfamily Corixinae
Tribe Corixini
Genus Hesperocorixa
Explanation of Names
Hesperocorixa Kirkaldy 1908
Numbers
~20 spp. in our area(1), ~40 total(2)
Size
most are 8‒9 mm(3)
Identification
The pronotum and the fore wings usually show some rugose areas and the male front tibiae always has a bundle of spine hairs near the apex(3)
key to 11 spp. recorded in IL in (4)
Range
most of NA(5)
Habitat
lotic―depositional(5)
Works Cited
1.American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico
Ross H. Arnett. 2000. CRC Press.
2.BioLib.cz
3.How to Know the True Bugs
Slater, James A., and Baranowski, Richard M. 1978. Wm. C. Brown Company.
4.Three aquatic true bugs (Hem.: Heteroptera) newly reported in Illinois, with keys to Hesperocorixa (Corixidae) and Notonectidae
Swanson D.R., Bilger E.E. 2021. Ent. News 130: 1‒18.
5.Aquatic Insects of North America
R. W. Merritt, K. W. Cummins, M.B. Berg. 2008. Kendall/Hunt.
Contributed by tom murray on 23 January, 2009 - 11:27pm
Additional contributions by v belov, Marci Hess
Last updated 11 August, 2023 - 6:25pm

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