CORIXIDAE
(a family of lesser water boatmen)

Subtaxon Example images Rank Featured
subtaxa		 No of
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ID refs
Callicorixa praeusta
a lesser waterboatman
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 		Species 7 images 1 ident. refs
Callicorixa wollastoni
a lesser waterboatman
Species 1 ident. refs
Corixa
a genus of lesser waterboatmen
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 		Genus 3 subtaxa 8 images 3 ident. refs
Cymatia
a genus of bugs
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 		Genus 1 subtaxa 1 images
Hesperocorixa
a genus of lesser waterboatmen
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 		Genus 2 subtaxa 32 images
Paracorixa concinna
a lesser waterboatman
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 		Species 1 images 1 ident. refs
Sigara
a genus of lesser waterboatmen
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 		Genus 4 subtaxa 19 images 1 ident. refs
Taxonomic hierarchy:
FamilyCORIXIDAE (a family of lesser water boatmen)
SuperfamilyCORIXOIDEA (a superfamily of lesser water boatmen)
InfraorderNepomorpha (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)

Identification Works

AuthorYearTitleSource
Macan, T.T. 1976 *** A revised key to the British water bugs (Hemiptera-Heteroptera), with notes on their ecology ***(Superseded) Scientific publications, No 16, Freshwater Biological Association
() Savage, A.A. 1990 A Key to the Adults of British Lesser Water Boatmen (Corixidae) Field Studies 7: 485-515.

Larvae

Savage, A.A. 1999 Larval Corixidae Scientific Publications, No 57., 56pp, Freshwater Biological Association

CORIXIDAE (a family of lesser water boatmen) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

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