Merragata

Merragata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hemiptera
Family:	Hebridae
Subfamily:	Hebrinae
Genus:	Merragata Buchanan-White, 1877

Merragata is a genus of velvet water bugs in the family Hebridae. There are about seven described species in Merragata. ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Species

These seven species belong to the genus Merragata:

• Merragata brunnea Drake, 1917
• Merragata hackeri Hungerford, 1934
• Merragata hebroides Buchanan-White, 1877
• Merragata pallescens Distant, 1909
• Merragata quieta Drake, 1952
• Merragata sessoris Drake & Harris, 1943
• Merragata truxali Porter, 1955

References

1. "Merragata Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
2. "Merragata". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
3. "Merragata genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-24.

Further reading

• Drake, Carl J.; Chapman, Harold C. (1958). "New Neotropical Hebridae, including a catalogue of the American species (Hemiptera)". Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences. 48 (10): 317–326. JSTOR   24533671.
• Bright, E. (2002–2011). "Aquatic Insects of Michigan" . Retrieved 2019-07-02.
• Andersen, N. Møller (1981). "Semiaquatic bugs: phylogeny and classification of the Hebridae (Heteroptera: Gerromorpha) with revisions of Timasius, Neotimasius and Hyrcanus". Systematic Entomology. 6 (4): 377–412. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3113.1981.tb00049.x. S2CID   86235595.
• Aukema, Berend; Rieger, Christian, eds. (1995). Catalogue of the Heteroptera of the Palaearctic Region, Vol. 1: Enicocephalomorpha, Dipsocoromorpha, Nepomorpha, Gerromorpha and Leptopodomorpha. The Netherlands Entomological Society. ISBN   978-90-71912-12-2.