Notonecta

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Paraneoptera
Superordo: Condylognatha
Ordo: Hemiptera
Subordo: Heteroptera
Infraordo: Nepomorpha
Superfamilia: Notonectoidea

Familia: Notonectidae
Subfamilia: Notonectinae
Genus: Notonecta
Species: N. canariensis – N. glauca – N. itatiaia – N. lutea – N. maculata – N. meridionalis – N. obliqua – N. pallidula – N. reuteri – N. viridis – †N. vetula
Name

Notonecta Carolus Linnaeus, 1758

Type species: Notonecta glauca Linnaeus, 1758

References
Primary references

Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio Decima, Reformata. Tomus I. Holmiæ (Stockholm): impensis direct. Laurentii Salvii. 824 pp. DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.542 [first availability: page 439] BHL Reference page.

Additional references

Barbosa, J.F. & Nessimian, J.L., 2013: New species and new records of Notonecta (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Notonectidae) from Brazil. Zoologia, 30 (6): 692–696. Full article: [1].
Petrulevičius, J.F.; Nel, A.; Sallenave, A.S. 2010: Recent genus Notonecta (Insecta: Heteroptera: Notonectidae) in the Lower Cretaceous of San Luis, Argentina: palaeoecological implications. Annales de la Société entomologique de France (n.s.), 46: 247–253. ISSN: 0037-9271 [not seen]
Zhang, W.-T.; Yao, Y.-Z.; Ren, D. 2012: Phylogenetic analysis of a new fossil Notonectidae (Heteroptera: Nepomorpha) from the Late Jurassic of China. Alcheringa, 36(2): 239–250. DOI: 10.1080/03115518.2012.628165

Links

Notonecta Taxon details on Fauna Europaea
ZooBank: D217516E-581D-480E-8918-36E6A79FA356

Notonecta, or the common backswimmer, is a genus of backswimmer insects in the family Notonectidae. Species in this genus include:[1][2][3]

Notonecta borealis
Notonecta glauca
Notonecta hoffmanni
Notonecta indica
Notonecta insulata
Notonecta irrorata
Notonecta kirbyi
Notonecta lobata
Notonecta lunata
Notonecta maculata
Notonecta marmorea
Notonecta meridionalis
Notonecta montezuma
Notonecta obliqua
Notonecta ochrothoe
Notonecta pallidula
Notonecta petrunkevitchi
Notonecta raleighi
Notonecta repanda
Notonecta shooteri
Notonecta spinosa
Notonecta uhleri
Notonecta undulata
Notonecta unifasciata
Notonecta viridis

References

Merritt, R.W.; Cummins, K.W.; Berg, M.B., eds. (2008). An Introduction to the Aquatic Insects of North America (4th ed.). Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company. ISBN 9780757550492.
"Directório de Espécies de Portugal". Naturdata. Retrieved January 24, 2014.
"Notonecta". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved January 24, 2014.