MESOVELIIDAE
(pondweed bugs)

MESOVELIIDAE (pondweed bugs) may be included in 'feeds on' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

MESOVELIIDAE (pondweed bugs) may be included in 'fed on by' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

Taxonomic hierarchy:
FamilyMESOVELIIDAE (pondweed bugs)
InfraorderGerromorpha (an infraorder of waterbugs)
SuborderHETEROPTERA (true bugs)
OrderHEMIPTERA (bugs)
Division Exopterygota (earwigs, grasshoppers, stoneflies, true bugs, and other insects with wings developing externally)
InfraclassNeoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
SubclassPTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
ClassINSECTA (true insects)
SubphylumHEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
PhylumARTHROPODA (arthropods)
SuperphylumECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
CladeBilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
SubkingdomEUMETAZOA (metazoans)
KingdomANIMALIA (animals)
DomainEukaryota (eukaryotes)
LifeBIOTA (living things)
NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for MESOVELIIDAE (pondweed bugs)

Identification Works

Handling & MagnificationAuthorYearTitleSource
Macan, T.T. 1976 *** A revised key to the British water bugs (Hemiptera-Heteroptera), with notes on their ecology ***(Superseded) Scientific publications, No 16, Freshwater Biological Association

MESOVELIIDAE (pondweed bugs) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

General Works

AuthorYearTitleSource
Nau, B. 1985 Observations on some water-bugs Het News No 6: 7.

Literature listed under the following higher taxa may also be relevant to MESOVELIIDAE (pondweed bugs):

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