| Anisops | |
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| Anisops debilis | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hemiptera |
| Suborder: | Heteroptera |
| Family: | Notonectidae |
| Genus: | Anisops Spinola, 1837 |
| Type species | |
| Notovecta nivea Fabricius, 1775
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Anisops is a genus of insects in the family Notonectidae.12 They're sometimes referred to as backswimmers, so called because they swim upside down.
Taxonomy
Anisops contains the following species:
- Anisops letitia1
- Anisops varia1
- Anisops aglaia1
- Anisops apicalis1
- Anisops gracilis1
- Anisops hypatria1
- Anisops jaczewskii1
- Anisops leesoniana1
- Anisops perpulcher1
- Anisops poweri1
- Anisops praetexta1
- Anisops psyche1
- Anisops varius1
- Anisops amaisi1
- Anisops thienemanni1
- Anisops hyperion1
- Anisops planifascies1
- Anisops crinitus1
- Anisops wakefieldi1 - Endemic to New Zealand.3
- Anisops debilis1
- Anisops pellucens1
- Anisops sardea1
- Anisops tahitiensis1
- Anisops deanei1
- Anisops kuroiwae1
- Anisops stali1
- Anisops elstoni1
- Anisops sardeus1
- Anisops nasuta1
- Anisops occipitalis1
- Anisops assimilis1 - Endemic to New Zealand.3
- Anisops ogasawarensis1
References
References
- "Common Backswimmers (Genus Anisops)". iNaturalist. Retrieved 2024-11-18.
- Spinola, Maximilian (1837). Essai sur les genres d'insectes appartenants a l'ordre des hemiptères, Lin., ou rhyngotes, Fab., et à la section des heteroptères, Dufour / para Maximilien Spinola. Gênes: Y. Gravier.
- Winterbourn, Michael J. (2005). "Dispersal, feeding and parasitism of adult stoneflies (Plecoptera) at a New Zealand forest stream". Aquatic Insects. 27 (3): 155–166. doi:10.1080/01650420500062840. ISSN 0165-0424. Retrieved 2024-11-18.