Aphelocheirus aestivalis is a Palearctic species of true bug.[1][2][3] It is aquatic and wingless, covered in microscopic hairs that form a physical gill when underwater.[4]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hemiptera |
| Suborder: | Heteroptera |
| Family: | Aphelocheiridae |
| Genus: | Aphelocheirus |
| Species: | A. aestivalis
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| Binomial name | |
| Aphelocheirus aestivalis (Fabricius, 1794)
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References
edit- ^ K. H. C. Jordan: Wasserwanzen. Die Neue Brehm-Bücherei, Leipzig, 1950. .
- ^ Mamaev B.M. , Medvedev L.N. , Pravdin F.N. Keys to insects of the European part of the USSR. - M .: Education, 1976 .-- P. 87 .-- 304 p.
- ^ Aukema, Berend, and Christian Rieger, eds. (1995), Catalogue of the Heteroptera of the Palaearctic Region, vol. 1: Enicocephalomorpha, Dipsocoromorpha, Nepomorpha, Gerromorpha and Leptopodomorpha
- ^ "Aphelocheirus aestivalis". Aquatic Heteroptera Recording Scheme for Britain & Ireland. Wordpress. 6 March 2014. Retrieved 10 August 2020.