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Pleidae  Fieber, 1851
Taxonomic Serial No.: 103602

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Family  
  Synonym(s):    
  Common Name(s): pleid water bugs [English]
  
    pygmy backswimmers [English]
  
       
  Taxonomic Status:    
  Current Standing: valid  
       
  Data Quality Indicators:    
  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
  Global Species Completeness: complete   
  Latest Record Review: 2021   
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomAnimalia  – Animal, animaux, animals  
    SubkingdomBilateria  – triploblasts  
       InfrakingdomProtostomia   
          SuperphylumEcdysozoa   
             PhylumArthropoda  – Artrópode, arthropodes, arthropods  
                SubphylumHexapoda  – hexapods  
                   ClassInsecta  – insects, hexapoda, inseto, insectes  
                      SubclassPterygota  – insects ailés, winged insects  
                         InfraclassNeoptera  – modern, wing-folding insects  
                            SuperorderAcercaria   
                               OrderHemiptera Linnaeus, 1758 – true bugs, hemipterans  
                                  SuborderHeteroptera Latreille, 1810 – true bugs, barbeiro, maria fedida, percevejo, heteropterans  
                                     InfraorderNepomorpha  – aquatic bugs, water bugs  
                                        SuperfamilyNotonectoidea Latreille, 1802 – back swimmers, backswimmers  
                                           FamilyPleidae Fieber, 1851 – pleid water bugs, pygmy backswimmers  
    Direct Children:  
                                              Genus Heteroplea Cook, 2011  
                                              Genus Neoplea Esaki and China, 1928  
                                              Genus Paraplea Esaki and China, 1928  
                                              Genus Plea Leach, 1818  
       

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  Source: NODC Taxonomic Code, database (version 8.0)  
  Acquired: 1996   
  Notes:    
  Reference for: Pleidae, pleid water bugs [English]   
       
  Publication(s):    
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Andersen, Nils M., and Tom A. Weir  
  Publication Date: 2004   
  Article/Chapter Title: Australian Water Bugs: Their Biology and Identification (Hemiptera-Heteroptera, Gerromorpha & Nepomorpha)   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Entomonograph, vol. 14   
  Page(s): 344   
  Publisher: Apollo Books CSIRO Publishing   
  Publication Place: Collingwood, Victoria, Australia   
  ISBN/ISSN: 87-88757-78-1, 0106-2808  
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  Reference for: Pleidae   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Henry, Thomas J. / Foottit, Robert G., and Peter H. Adler, eds.  
  Publication Date: 2009   
  Article/Chapter Title: Chapter 10. Biodiversity of Heteroptera   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Insect Biodiversity: Science and Society   
  Page(s): 223-263   
  Publisher: Blackwell Publishing (Wiley-Blackwell)   
  Publication Place: Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom   
  ISBN/ISSN: 9781405151429   
  Notes:    
  Reference for: Pleidae, pygmy backswimmers [English]   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Henry, Thomas J., and Richard C. Froeschner, eds.  
  Publication Date: 1988   
  Article/Chapter Title:    
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Catalog of the Heteroptera, or True Bugs, of Canada and the Continental United States   
  Page(s): xix + 958   
  Publisher: E. J. Brill   
  Publication Place: New York, New York, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 0-916846-44-X   
  Notes:    
  Reference for: Pleidae   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): McGavin, George C.  
  Publication Date: 1993   
  Article/Chapter Title:    
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Bugs of the World   
  Page(s): 192   
  Publisher: Facts on File   
  Publication Place: New York, New York, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 0-8160-2737-4   
  Notes:    
  Reference for: Pleidae   
       

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