Merragata is a genus of velvet water bugs in the family Hebridae. There are about seven described species in Merragata.[1][2][3]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hemiptera |
| Suborder: | Heteroptera |
| Family: | Hebridae |
| Subfamily: | Hebrinae |
| Genus: | Merragata Buchanan-White, 1877 |
Species
editThese seven species belong to the genus Merragata:
- Merragata brunnea Drake, 1917
- Merragata hackeri Hungerford, 1934
- Merragata hebroides Buchanan-White, 1877
- Merragata pallescens Distant, 1909
- Merragata quieta Drake, 1952
- Merragata sessoris Drake & Harris, 1943
- Merragata truxali Porter, 1955
References
edit- ^ "Merragata Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
- ^ "Merragata". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
- ^ "Merragata genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
Further reading
edit- Drake, Carl J.; Chapman, Harold C. (1958). "New Neotropical Hebridae, including a catalogue of the American species (Hemiptera)". Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences. 48 (10): 317–326. JSTOR 24533671.
- Bright, E. (2002–2011). "Aquatic Insects of Michigan". Retrieved 2019-07-02.
- Andersen, N. Møller (1981). "Semiaquatic bugs: phylogeny and classification of the Hebridae (Heteroptera: Gerromorpha) with revisions of Timasius, Neotimasius and Hyrcanus". Systematic Entomology. 6 (4): 377–412. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3113.1981.tb00049.x. S2CID 86235595.
- Aukema, Berend; Rieger, Christian, eds. (1995). Catalogue of the Heteroptera of the Palaearctic Region, Vol. 1: Enicocephalomorpha, Dipsocoromorpha, Nepomorpha, Gerromorpha and Leptopodomorpha. The Netherlands Entomological Society. ISBN 978-90-71912-12-2.
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