Mesoveliidae is a family of water treaders in the order Hemiptera. There are about 16 genera and at least 50 described species in Mesoveliidae.[1][2][3][4]
Genera
These 12 extant genera belong to the family Mesoveliidae.
While traditionally divided in two subfamilies, Madeoveliinae (including Madeovelia and Mesoveloidea) and Mesoveliinae (all other genera), molecular phylogenetics suggests Mesoveliinae are polyphyletic and thus the subfamily-level classification should be abandoned.[5]
^Damgaard, Jakob; Ferraz Figueiredo Moreira, Felipe; Hayashi, Masakazu; Weir, Tom A.; Zettel, Herbert (2012). "Molecular phylogeny of the pond treaders (Insecta: Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Mesoveliidae), discussion of the fossil record and a checklist of species assigned to the family". Insect Systematics & Evolution. 43 (3–4): 175–212. doi:10.1163/1876312X04302004.
^Boderau, M.; Ngô-Muller, V.; Garrouste, R.; Nel, A. (2024). "The second genus of pond treaders (Heteroptera: Mesoveliidae) from mid-Cretaceous amber of Myanmar". Annales de Paléontologie. 110 (3). 102685. doi:10.1016/j.annpal.2024.102685.
^Boderau, M.; Ngo-Muller, V.; Nel, A.; Garrouste, R. (2023). "The first water treader (Heteroptera: Mesoveliidae) from the mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber". Palaeoentomology. 6 (4): 435–441. doi:10.11646/palaeoentomology.6.4.14. S2CID261308718.
Further reading
Schuh, Randall T.; Slater, James A. (1995). True Bugs of the World (Hemiptera: Heteroptera): Classification and Natural History. Cornell University Press. ISBN978-0-8014-2066-5.
Andersen, N. Møller; Polhemus, John T. (1980). "Four new genera of Mesoveliidae (Hemiptera, Gerromorpha) and the phylogeny and classification of the family". Insect Systematics & Evolution. 11 (4): 369–392. doi:10.1163/187631280794710060.
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. ISBN978-90-71912-12-2.