CORIXOIDEA Leach, 1815

Fent, Meral, Kment, Petr, Çamur-Elipek, Belgin & Kirgiz, Timur, 2011, Annotated catalogue of Enicocephalomorpha, Dipsocoromorpha, Nepomorpha, Gerromorpha, and Leptopodomorpha (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) of Turkey, with new records 2856, Zootaxa 2856 (1), pp. 1-84 : 13

CORIXOIDEA Leach, 1815

MICRONECTIDAE Jaczewski, 1924

MICRONECTINAE Jaczewski, 1924

Comment. Nieser (2002) raised the subfamilies Diaprepocorinae and Micronectinae to family status, in the superfamily Corixoidea , thus including three families: Diaprepocoridae, Micronectidae , and Corixidae . Nieser & Chen (2006) described a new subfamily within Micronectidae , Synaptogobiinae Nieser & Chen, 2006, including a single Neotropical genus Synaptogobia Nieser & Chen, 2006 . The nominotypical subfamily Micronectinae includes five genera, Micronecta Jaczewski, 1924 , Papuanecta Tinerella, 2008 and Synaptonecta Lundblad, 1933 from the Old World, and Tenagobia Bergroth, 1899 and Monogobia Nieser & Chen, 2006 from the Neotropical Region. These changes were accepted by most subsequent authors (e.g., Kurzątkowska 2003, Ituarte & Papeschi 2004, Morrone et al. 2004, Chen et al. 2005, Grozeva et al. 2008, Tinerella 2008, Konopko et al. 2010, Weirauch & Schuh 2011). However, this action was critised by Andersen & Weir (2004). Nobody also considered the position and phylogenetic relationships of fossil subfamilies Archaeocorixinae, Corixonectinae , and Velocorixinae within Corixoidea (cf. Popov 1986). Hebsgaard et al. (2004) confirmed the monophyly of Corixoidea , but failed in sequencing Micronectinae DNA, so the phylogenetic relationships within the superfamily remains untested.