Halovelia Bergroth, 1893

Anderson, R. Charles, Adam, M. Shiham & Cheng, Lanna, 2023, Marine insects of the Maldives (Heteroptera: Gerridae, Hermatobatidae and Veliidae; Diptera: Chironomidae) with notes on taxonomy, Indo-Pacific distribution, and ecology, Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 71, pp. 478-490 : 487

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https://doi.org/ 10.26107/RBZ-2023-0035

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scientific name

Halovelia Bergroth, 1893
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Genus Halovelia Bergroth, 1893 View in CoL

The Veliidae is a large family with 57 known genera and more than 800 described species worldwide. It is a family of small aquatic bugs with most adults measuring less than 3 mm in body length. Most are found in freshwater. Halovelia is an exclusively marine genus with more than 50 described species, commonly found among intertidal rock pools around tropical islands ( Andersen, 1989).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Veliidae

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Veliidae

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