VELIIDAE
(water crickets)

Subtaxon				Example images	Rank	Featured subtaxa	No of images	No of ID refs
Microvelia a genus of water crickets					Genus			1 ident. refs
Velia a genus of bugs					Genus	1 subtaxa	17 images

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Family	VELIIDAE (water crickets)
Superfamily	GERROIDEA (a superfamily of bugs)
Infraorder	Gerromorpha (an infraorder of waterbugs)
Suborder	HETEROPTERA (true bugs)
Order	HEMIPTERA (bugs)
Division	Exopterygota (earwigs, grasshoppers, stoneflies, true bugs, and other insects with wings developing externally)
Infraclass	Neoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
Subclass	PTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
Class	INSECTA (true insects)
Subphylum	HEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
Phylum	ARTHROPODA (arthropods)
Superphylum	ECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
Clade	Bilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
Subkingdom	EUMETAZOA (metazoans)
Kingdom	ANIMALIA (animals)
Domain	Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Life	BIOTA (living things)

VELIIDAE is also a member of:
water bugs - aquatic Hemiptera (via Gerromorpha)
Invertebrates - Invertebrates (via Arthropoda)

Identification Works

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	Macan, T.T.	1976	* A revised key to the British water bugs (Hemiptera-Heteroptera), with notes on their ecology *(Superseded)	Scientific publications, No 16, Freshwater Biological Association

VELIIDAE (water crickets) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

Gerromorpha
(an infraorder of waterbugs)

HETEROPTERA
(true bugs)

HEMIPTERA
(bugs)

INSECTA
(true insects)

HEXAPODA
(insects and other 6-legged organisms)

ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)

ANIMALIA
(animals)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

water bugs
(aquatic Hemiptera)

NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for VELIIDAE (water crickets)

BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 0 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for VELIIDAE (water crickets)

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Taxonomic hierarchy:

VELIIDAE is also a member of:

Identification Works

BioImages - Virtual Field-Guide (UK)