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    Notonectidae (redirect from Backswimmers)
    cosmopolitan family of aquatic insects in the order Hemiptera, commonly called backswimmers because they swim "upside down" (inverted). They are all predators and...
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    Pleidae (redirect from Pygmy backswimmer)
    Either the pygmy backswimmers are united with the Helotrephidae in the superfamily Pleoidea, or these two and the true backswimmers are placed in a single...
    10 KB (1,079 words) - 16:48, 9 August 2024
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    like other backswimmers, by surface waves. Lang (1979), completed an experiment that showed that waves that were created by other backswimmers swimming...
    14 KB (1,729 words) - 14:29, 17 August 2024
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    legs. Water boatman have highly modified front legs whereas backswimmers do not. Backswimmers are distributed across a broad range throughout North America...
    11 KB (1,408 words) - 22:54, 13 December 2022
  • including such insects as giant water bugs, creeping water bugs and backswimmers Various other aquatic true bugs, known collectively as water bugs Heteroptera...
    689 bytes (97 words) - 04:30, 26 July 2024
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    Notonecta, known as backswimmers or water-boatmen, is a genus of bugs in the family Notonectidae. Species in this genus include: Notonecta borealis Notonecta...
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  • Notonecta kirbyi, or Kirby's backswimmer, is a species of backswimmer in the family Notonectidae. It is found in North America. "Notonecta kirbyi Report"...
    1 KB (51 words) - 03:21, 15 July 2023
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    some are found in freshwater habitats. These include the water boatmen, backswimmers, pond skaters, and giant water bugs. Hemiptera belong to the insect superorder...
    65 KB (6,530 words) - 06:36, 8 August 2024
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    and ponds, as well as some household pools. Unlike their relatives the backswimmers (Notonectidae), who swim upside down, Corixidae swim right side up. It...
    11 KB (816 words) - 14:40, 17 August 2024
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    Family Notonectidae – backswimmers Note: sometimes included in Notonectoidea Family Helotrephidae Family Pleidae – pygmy backswimmers Wikimedia Commons has...
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    of Comparative Physiology A. 148: 323–335. doi:10.1007/bf00679017. "Backswimmers". UK Safari. Archived from the original on 17 August 2013. Banks, C.J...
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    The backswimmer Notonecta glauca underwater, showing its paddle-like hindleg adaptation...
    134 KB (12,781 words) - 16:07, 6 August 2024
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    Potamocoridae Naucoroidea Naucoridae (creeping water bugs) Notonectoidea Notonectidae (backswimmers) Pleoidea Helotrephidae Pleidae (pygmy backswimmers)...
    75 KB (7,907 words) - 00:41, 23 August 2024
  • In the 10th edition of Systema Naturae, Carl Linnaeus classified the arthropods, including insects, arachnids and crustaceans, among his class "Insecta"...
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    Potamocoridae Naucoroidea Naucoridae (creeping water bugs) Notonectoidea Notonectidae (backswimmers) Pleoidea Helotrephidae Pleidae (pygmy backswimmers)...
    15 KB (1,195 words) - 00:55, 22 August 2024
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    bubble that exchanges gas like a plastron. Other diving insects (such as backswimmers, and hydrophilid beetles) may carry trapped air bubbles, but deplete...
    21 KB (2,659 words) - 19:14, 14 August 2024
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    Potamocoridae Naucoroidea Naucoridae (creeping water bugs) Notonectoidea Notonectidae (backswimmers) Pleoidea Helotrephidae Pleidae (pygmy backswimmers)...
    16 KB (1,746 words) - 04:35, 20 July 2024
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    Potamocoridae Naucoroidea Naucoridae (creeping water bugs) Notonectoidea Notonectidae (backswimmers) Pleoidea Helotrephidae Pleidae (pygmy backswimmers)...
    104 KB (11,368 words) - 07:06, 30 July 2024
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    Potamocoridae Naucoroidea Naucoridae (creeping water bugs) Notonectoidea Notonectidae (backswimmers) Pleoidea Helotrephidae Pleidae (pygmy backswimmers)...
    10 KB (1,099 words) - 08:50, 29 March 2024
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    frogs, dragonflies, other damselflies, water spiders, water beetles, backswimmers and giant water bugs. Damselflies have a variety of internal and external...
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