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Common backswimmer (Notonecta glauca) The best-known genus of backswimmers is Notonecta – streamlined, deep-bodied bugs up to 1.6 cm (0.6 in) long, green, brown, or yellowish in colour. The common backswimmer, N. glauca, is widespread in Europe, including the United Kingdom where it is known as the greater water boatman. [3]
Notonecta glauca, also known as the greater water-boatman or common backswimmer, is a species of aquatic insect in the family Notonectidae. This species is found in large parts of Europe, North Africa, and east through Asia to Siberia and China. [1] In much of its range it is the most common backswimmer species. [2]
Pleidae, the pygmy backswimmers, is a family of aquatic insects in the order Hemiptera (infraorder Nepomorpha, or "true water bugs"). There are 37 species in three genera , distributed across most of the world, except the polar regions and remote oceanic islands.
Notonecta undulata, also known by the common name grousewinged backswimmer, are from the family Notonectidae and the insect suborder Heteroptera. They are a type of hemipteran or true bug. These aquatic insects typically spend their time at the water's surface, using their abdomen and legs to cling to the underside of the surface tension.
Notonecta maculata: Scientific classification; Domain: Eukaryota: Kingdom: Animalia: Phylum: Arthropoda: Class: Insecta: Order: Hemiptera: Suborder: Heteroptera
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Water boatman as a type of aquatic insect can mean: Corixa punctata, a species known as the lesser water boatman in the United Kingdom; Corixidae, a family known as water boatmen in the United States and Australia; Notonecta glauca, a species known as the greater water boatman in the United Kingdom (called the backswimmer in the United States)
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