Aquarius najas: Difference between revisions

'''''Aquarius najas''''', also known as the '''river skater''',<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.uniprot.org/taxonomy/108913 |title=Aquarius najas (River skater) (Gerris najas) |publisher=Pir.uniprot.org |date= |accessdate=2011-08-29}}</ref> is a European [[species]] of [[water strider]].<ref>{{EOL|3696712|Aquarius najas}}</ref><ref name=Ahlroth1999>{{cite journal| author1=Ahlroth | author2=Alatalo | author3=Hyvärinen | author4=Suhonen | year=1999 | title=Geographical variation in wing polymorphism of the waterstrider Aquarius najas (Heteroptera, Gerridae) | journal=Journal of Evolutionary Biology | volume=12 | issue=1 | pages=156–160 | doi=10.1046/j.1420-9101.1999.00022.x | s2cid=83872458 }}</ref> It was formerly known as ''[[Gerris]] najas'', but the subgenus ''Aquarius'' was elevated to generic rank in 1990 on the basis of phylogenetic analysis.<ref>{{Cite journal|author=Andersen, Nils Møller|year=1990|title=Phylogeny and taxonomy of water striders, genus ''Aquarius'' Schellenberg (Insecta, Hemiptera, Gerridae), with a new species from Australia|journal=Steenstrupia|volume=16|issue=4|pages=37&ndash;81}} [http://www.cabdirect.org/abstracts/19930514602.html Abstract]</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Gallant, Sharon L. |author2=Fairbairn, Daphne J.|year=1996|title=A New Species of ''Aquarius'' from the Southeastern United States, with Electrophoretic Analysis of the Clade Containing ''Gerris'', ''Limnoporus'', and ''Aquarius'' (Hemiptera: Gerridae)|journal=Annals of the Entomological Society of America|volume=89|issue=5|pages=637&ndash;644|doi=10.1093/aesa/89.5.637|doi-access=}} [http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/esa/aesa/1996/00000089/00000005/art00003 Abstract]</ref>