Aquatic Insects of Michigan

by Ethan Bright, Museum of Zoology Insect Division and School of Natural Resources and Environment
University of Michigan

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Heteroptera of Michigan - References

General

Henry TJ, Froeschner RC. (eds.). 1988. Catalog of the Heteroptera, or True Bugs, of Canada and the Continental United States. E. J. Brill: Leiden.  958 + xix.
Hilsenhoff WL. 1984. Aquatic Hemiptera of Wisconsin. The Great Lakes Entomologist 17(1):29-50.
Hilsenhoff WL. 1986. Semiaquatic Hemiptera of Wisconsin. The Great Lakes Entomologist 19(1):7-19.

Belostomatidae

Lauck DR. 1964. A monograph of the genus Belostoma (Hemiptera). Part III. B. Triangulum, bergi, minor, bifoveolatum and flumineum groups. The Bulletin of the Chicago Academy of Sciences 11(5):102-154.
Menke AS. 1963. A review of the genus Lethocerus in North and Central America, including the West Indies (Hemiptera: Belostomatidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 56:261-267.
Polhemus JT, Polhemus DA, Henry TJ. 1988. Family Belostomatidae Leach, 1815. The Giant Water Bugs or Electric Light Bugs, pp. 47-55 in Henry TJ, Froeschner RC. (eds.). 1988. Catalog of the Heteroptera, or True Bugs, of Canada and the Continental United States. E. J. Brill: Leiden.  958 + xix.

Corixidae

Chordas SW III, Hudson PL. 1999. A list of Michigan Corixidae (Hemiptera) with four new state records from the Great Lakes of Michigan. Entomological News 110(4): 246-250.
Chordas, SW III, Chapman EG, Hudson PL, Chriscinske MA, Stewart RL Jr.. 2002. New midwestern state records of aquatic Hemiptera (Corixidae: Notonectidae). Entomological News 113(5): 310-314.
Hungerford HB. 1948.  The Corixidae of the Western Hemisphere (Hemiptera). University of Kansas Science Bulletin 32:1-827.
Polhemus JT., Froeschner RC., Polhemus DA. 1988. Family Corixidae Enderlein, 1915. The Coreid Bugs,  pp. 93-118 in Henry, TJ., Froeschner, RC. (eds.). 1988. Catalog of the Heteroptera, or True Bugs, of Canada and the Continental United States. E. J. Brill: Leiden.  958 + xix.
Sailer RI. 1948. The genus Trichocorixa (Corixidae, Hemiptera), p. 289-407, in H. B. Hungerford. The Corixidae of the Western Hemisphere (Hemiptera). University of Kansas Science Bulletin 32:1-827.

Gelastocoridae

Polhemus DA., and Polhemus JT. 1988. Family Gelastocoridae Kirkaldy, 1897. The Toad Bugs, pp. 136-139 in Henry, TJ., Froeschner, RC. (eds.). 1988. Catalog of the Heteroptera, or True Bugs, of Canada and the Continental United States. E. J. Brill: Leiden.  958 + xix.

Gerridae

Andersen NM. 1990. Phylogeny and taxonomy of water striders, genus Aquarius Schellenberg (Insecta, Hemiptera, Gerridae), with a new species from Australia. Steenstrupia 16(4):37-81.
Smith CL. 1988. Family Gerridae Leach, 1815. The Water Striders, pp. 140-155 in Henry, TJ., Froeschner, RC. (eds.). 1988. Catalog of the Heteroptera, or True Bugs, of Canada and the Continental United States. E. J. Brill: Leiden.  958 + xix.

Hebridae

Polhemus JT, Polhemus DA. 1988. Family Hebridae Amyot and Serville, 1843. The Velvet Water Bugs, pp. 152-155. in Henry TJ., Froeschner RC. (eds.). 1988. Catalog of the Heteroptera, or True Bugs, of Canada and the Continental United States. E. J. Brill: Leiden.  958 + xix.

Hydrometridae

Smith, CL. 1988. Family Hydrometridae Billberg, 1820. The Marsh Treaders, pp. 156-158 in Henry, TJ., Froeschner, RC. (eds.). 1988. Catalog of the Heteroptera, or True Bugs, of Canada and the Continental United States. E. J. Brill: Leiden.  958 + xix.

Mesoveliidae

Smith CL. 1988. Family Mesoveliidae Douglas and Scott, 1867. The Water Treaders, pp. 247-248 in Henry, TJ., Froeschner, RC. (eds.). 1988. Catalog of the Heteroptera, or True Bugs, of Canada and the Continental United States. E. J. Brill: Leiden.  958 + xix.

Naucoridae

Polhemus DA, Polhemus JT. 1988. Family Naucoridae Leach, 1815. The Creeping Water Bugs, pp. 521-527 in Henry, TJ., Froeschner, RC. (eds.). 1988. Catalog of the Heteroptera, or True Bugs, of Canada and the Continental United States. E. J. Brill: Leiden.  958 + xix.

Notonectidae

Hungerford HB. 1933. The genus Notonecta of the world (Notonectidae-Hemiptera). The University of Kansas Science Bulletin 21:5-195.
Polhemus JT, Polhemus DA. 1988. Family Notonectidae Latreille, 1802. The Backswimmers, pp. 533-540 in Henry, TJ., Froeschner, RC. (eds.). 1988. Catalog of the Heteroptera, or True Bugs, of Canada and the Continental United States. E. J. Brill: Leiden.  958 + xix.
Truxal, F. S. 1953. A revision of the genus Buenoa (Hemiptera Notonectidae). The University of Kansas Science Bulletin 35,2(11):1351-1523.

Nepidae

Polhemus DA. 1988. Family Nepidae Latreille, 1802. The Water Scorpions, pp. 528-532 in Henry, TJ., Froeschner, RC. (eds.). 1988. Catalog of the Heteroptera, or True Bugs, of Canada and the Continental United States. E. J. Brill: Leiden.  958 + xix.

Ochteridae

Polhemus DA, Polhemus JT. 1988. Family Ochteridae Kirkaldy, 1906. The Velvety Shore Bugs, pp. 541-543 in Henry, TJ., Froeschner, RC. (eds.). 1988. Catalog of the Heteroptera, or True Bugs, of Canada and the Continental United States. E. J. Brill: Leiden.  958 + xix.

Saldidae

Polhemus JT. 1988. Family Saldidae Amyot and Serville, 1843. The Shore Bugs, pp. 665-681 in Henry, TJ., Froeschner, RC. (eds.). 1988. Catalog of the Heteroptera, or True Bugs, of Canada and the Continental United States. E. J. Brill: Leiden.  958 + xix.

Veliidae

Hyssey RF. 1919. The waterbugs (Hemiptera) of the Douglas Lake region, Michigan. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology 75. 23 pp.
Polhemus DA. 1997. Systematics of the genus Rhagovelia Mayr (Heteroptera: Veliidae) in the Western Hemisphere (Exclusive of the angustipes Complex). Thomas Say Publications in Entomology: Monographs. ii + 368 pp.
Smith CL. 1988.
Family Veliidae Amyot and Serville, 1843. The Small Water Striders, pp. 734-742 in Henry, TJ., Froeschner, RC. (eds.). 1988. Catalog of the Heteroptera, or True Bugs, of Canada and the Continental United States. E. J. Brill: Leiden.  958 + xix.

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