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Family · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Gerridae

pondskaters

WoRMS 160268ITIS 103801key worms:160268
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2026-08-05: itis_id 103801 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Tommaso Cancellario · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Gerris lacustris

Size · not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).

Photograph of Gerridae
Photo · Don Loarie · CC BY 4.0 · inat

The Gerridae are a family of insects in the order Hemiptera, commonly known as water striders, water skeeters, water scooters, water bugs, pond skaters, water skippers, water gliders, water skimmers or puddle flies. They are true bugs of the suborder Heteroptera and have mouthparts evolved for piercing and sucking.W CalCOFI holds 434 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1999 and 2013.R

434
observations
434
records
1999–2013
years
1
datasets

Observed in

Nothing is keyed to this taxon directly — every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa below.

Under it · 1 taxon

Ways in
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Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

Explorerdb-query
R
library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:160268")