CORIXA, species

Lesser Waterboatman can be found worldwide. There are about 200-300 species, 41 living in Europe. Most of them can only be separated by specialists with experience and a microscope.
In the Netherlands there are over 30 species. Most familiar is Corixa punctata (punctata=speckled), also noted as Corixa Geoffroyi. The tree shown below is just an example of a main classification.

CLASSIFICATION (Dutch key of the KNNV)

family Corixidae 2 subfamilies - 8 genera - 31 species

subfamily Micronectinae - 1 genus - Micronecta with 3 species
subfamily Corixinae:
- infrafamily Cymatini - 1 genus- Cymatia with 3 species
- infrafamily Glaenocorisae - 1 genus met 1 species
- infrafamily Corixini - 5 genera with a total of 24 species:
  1. Corixa - 4 species among which Corixa punctata, a well known species
  2. Hesperocorixa - 4 species (of which 2 very common in the Netherlands)
  3. Callicorixa - 3 species (of which 2 very common in the Netherlands)
  4. Arctocorisa - 1 species (common in shallow waters in the Dunes)
  5. Sigara - 12 species a.w. S. stagnalis and S. lateralis, common along the coast (salt water).

For example: looking at Corixa punctata, that species apparently belongs to the infrafamily Corixinae which in turn is classified under the subfamily Corixinae, which at last is part of the the family Corixadae (Lesser Waterboatmen). And of course that family is part of the order Hemiptera, or bugs.

On the next page more about the tiny Micronecta species.

GENERAL RECOGNISING ANATOMY LIFE SPECIES MICRONECTA NAMES

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