Aquarius (genus)

Aquarius najas

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Animalia — Arthropoda

Classis : Insecta 
Ordo : Hemiptera 
Subordo : Heteroptera 
Familia : Gerridae 
Subfamilia : Gerrinae 
Tribus : Gerrini 
Genus : Aquarius 
Schellenberg, 1800

   

Aquarius est genus hemipterorum familiae Gerridarum hemisphaerii septentrionalis. Quod olim subgenus, ad gradum genericum post enodationem phylogeneticam anno 1990 levatum est. Singuli huius generis sunt inter maximas mundi gerridas, feminis 12–17 millimetra longis, maribusque 10–30 centesimis minoribus, secundum speciem. Ambo autem sexus speciei Aquarii elongati sunt circiter 24 millimetra longi adulti, eadem magnitudine certorum Cylindrostethorum, et solum Gigantometris gigantibus minores.

Species

Inter species descriptas intra hoc genus sunt:

• Aquarius adelaidis (Dohrn, 1860)
• Aquarius amplus (Drake & Harris, 1938)
• Aquarius antigone (Kirkaldy, 1899)
• Aquarius chilensis (Berg, 1881)
• Aquarius cinereus (Puton, 1869)
• Aquarius conformis (Uhler, 1878)
• Aquarius distanti (Horváth, 1899)
• Aquarius elongatus (Uhler, 1896)
• Aquarius fabricii Andersen, 1990
• Aquarius lili D.A. Polhemus & J.T. Polhemus, 1994
• Aquarius najas (De Geer, 1773)
• Aquarius nebularis (Drake & Hottes, 1925)
• Aquarius paludum (Fabricius, 1794)
• Aquarius philippinensis Zettel & Ruiz, 2003
• Aquarius remigis (Say, 1832)
• Aquarius remigoides Gallant & Fairbairn, 1996
• Aquarius ventralis (Fieber, 1861)

Bibliographia

• Andersen, Nils Møller. 1997. "A phylogenetic analysis of the evolution of sexual dimorphism and mating systems in water striders (Hemiptera: Gerridae)." Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 61 (3): 345–68. doi:10.1006/bijl.1996.0130.
• Andersen, Nils Møller. 1990. "Phylogeny and taxonomy of water striders, genus Aquarius Schellenberg (Insecta, Hemiptera, Gerridae), with a new species from Australia." Steenstrupia 16 (4): 37–81.
• Gallant, Sharon L., et Daphne J. Fairbairn. 1996. "A New Species of Aquarius from the Southeastern United States, with Electrophoretic Analysis of the Clade Containing Gerris, Limnoporus, and Aquarius (Hemiptera: Gerridae)." Annals of the Entomological Society of America 89 (5): 637–44.