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Corixidae

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Corixidae [kə′rik·sə‚dē]
(invertebrate zoology)
The water boatmen, the single family of the hemipteran superfamily Corixoidea.
Corixidae 

a family of water bugs. The body usually measures 5–6 mm. The tibiae of the front legs are shortened, and the feet are spoon-shaped. There are about 100 species, with 46 distributed in the USSR. The Corixidae live in small bodies of water and swim and fly well. They feed on plants, scraping off the surface tissues, and also completely sucking up seaweed filaments and particles of silt and detritus. The males can stridulate by rubbing their feet over the edges of the upper lip. When there are many Corixidae. the noise they produce becomes audible from the water.
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11 Sigara striata (Linnaeus, 1758)-16 Corixidae gen.
Meiobenthos of some Estonian coastal lakes/Monede Eesti ... by Timm, Tarmo; Kumari, Margit; Kubar, Kaidi; Sohar, Kadri; Traunspurger, Walter / Proceedings of the Estonian Academy of Sciences: Biology/Ecology
: A1, A2, A9, D6, D10, D12 Taeniopteryx metequi Ricker and Ross: D10 Order Hemiptera (8 families) Family Belostomatidae Belostomafluminea Say: A2, A4, A5, A8, A11, A13, A16, C2, C4, D4, D7, D11 Family Corixidae Hesperocorixa spp.
An annotated list of the aquatic insects collected in 2004 in the ... by Newhouse, Steven A. / Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science
The Family Corixidae was identified to family at FWS5 and Sigara at NPS1.
Aquatic macroinvertebrates of the Grand Calumet River by Whitman, Richard L. / Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science
 
 
 
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