Bibliography for MESOVELIIDAE

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• Andersen, N.M. & Weir, T.A. 2004. Australian Water Bugs. Their Biology and Identification (Hemiptera-Heteroptera, Gerromorpha & Nepomorpha). Entomonographen Denmark : Apollo Books Vol. 14 344 pp.
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• Drake, C.J. 1949. Two new Mesoveliidae, with a checklist of American species. Boletín de Entomologia Venezolana 7: 145-147
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• Froeschner, R.C. 1981. Heteroptera or true bugs of Ecuador: a partial catalog. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 1981(322): iv 1-147
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• Harris, H.M. & Drake, C.J. 1941. Notes on the family Mesoveliidae (Hemiptera) with descriptions of two new species. Iowa State College Journal of Science 15: 275-277
• Hoffmann, W.E. 1932. The biology of the three North American species of Mesovelia. The Canadian Entomologist 64: 88-94
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• Horváth, G. 1915. Monographia des Mesoveliides. Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici (Zoologica) 13: 535-556
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• Hungerford, H.B. 1917. The life-history of Mesovelia mulsanti White. Psyche (Cambridge) 24: 73-84
• Jaczewski, T. 1930. Notes on the American species of the genus Mesovelia Muls. Annales Musei Zoologici Polonici 9: 3-12
• Kirkaldy, G.W. 1901. On some Rhynchota, principally from New Guinea, (Amphibicorisae and Notonectidae). Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Genova 2 20: 804-810
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• Malipatil, M.B. & Monteith, M.B. 1983. One new genus and four new species of terrestrial Mesoveliidae (Hemiptera: Gerromorpha) from Australia and New Caledonia. Australian Journal of Zoology 31: 943-955
• Miyamoto, S. 1964. Semiaquatic Heteroptera of the south-west islands, lying between Kyushu and Formosa. Sieboldia 3: 193-219
• Monteith, G.B. 1985. Altitudinal transect studies at Cape Tribulation, North Queensland VII. Coleoptera and Hemiptera (Insecta). Queensland Naturalist 26: 70-80
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• Polhemus, D.A. 1993. The Heteroptera of Aldabra Atoll and nearby Islands, Western Indian Ocean, Part 2. Freshwater Heteroptera (Insecta): Corixidae, Notonectidae, Veliidae, Gerridae and Mesoveliidae. Atoll Research Bulletin 301: 1-16
• Polhemus, J.T. & Chapman, H.C. 1979. Family Mesoveliidae/water treaders. pp. 39-42 in Menke, A.S. (ed.). The Semiaquatic and Aquatic Hemiptera of California (Heteroptera: Hemiptera). Berkeley : University of California Press.
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• Smith, C.L. 1988. Family Mesoveliidae Douglas and Scott, 1867. The water treaders. pp. 247-248 in Henry, T.J. & Froeschner, R.C. (eds). Catalog of the Heteroptera, or True Bugs, of Canada and the Continental United States. Leiden : E.J. Brill xix 958 pp.
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• Zimmerman, E.C. 1948. Insects of Hawaii. Heteroptera. Honolulu : Univ. Hawaii Press Vol. 3 255 pp.

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