List of aquatic heteropteran bug species of Great Britain

This is a list of aquatic heteropteran bug species recorded in Britain.

Family Nepidae

• Nepa cinerea
• Ranatra linearis

Family Corixidae

• Micronecta scholtzi
• Micronecta griseola
• Micronecta minutissima
• Micronecta poweri
• Cymatia bonsdorffii
• Cymatia coleoptrata
• Glaencorisa propinqua
• Arctocorisa carinata
• Arctocorisa germari
• Callicorixa praeusta
• Callicorixa wollastoni
• Corixa affinis
• Corixa dentipes
• Corixa iberica
• Corixa panzeri
• Corixa punctata
• Hesperocorixa castanea
• Hesperocorixa linnaei
• Hesperocorixa moesta
• Hesperocorixa sahlbergi
• Paracorixa concinna
• Sigara selecta
• Sigara stagnalis
• Sigara nigrolineata
• Sigara limitata
• Sigara semistriata
• Sigara venusta
• Sigara dorsalis
• Sigara striata
• Sigara distincta
• Sigara falleni
• Sigara fallenoidea
• Sigara fossarum
• Sigara scotti
• Sigara lateralis

Family Naucoridae

• Ilyocoris cimicoides
• Naucoris maculatus

Family Aphelocheiridae

• Aphelocheirus aestivalis

Family Notonectidae

• Notonecta glauca
• Notonecta maculata
• Notonecta obliqua
• Notonecta viridis

Family Pleidae

• Plea minutissima

Family Mesoveliidae

• Mesovelia furcata

Family Hebridae

• Hebrus pusillus
• Hebrus ruficeps

Family Hydrometridae

• Hydrometra gracilenta
• Hydrometra stagnorum

Family Veliidae

• Microvelia buenoi
• Microvelia pygmaea
• Microvelia reticulata
• Velia caprai
• Velia saulii

Family Gerridae

• Aquarius najas
• Aquarius paludum
• Gerris argentatus
• Gerris costae
• Gerris gibbifer
• Gerris lacustris
• Gerris odontogaster
• Gerris thoracicus
• Gerris lateralis
• Limnoporus rufoscutellatus

See also

• Heteropteran
• British Isles

References

• Brooke, Sheila (2004) A checklist of British water bugs (Hemiptera-Heteroptera) Het News (Newsletter of the Heteroptera Recording Schemes) 2nd series No 3 pp 8 - 10