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Microvelia americana
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hemiptera
Suborder:	Heteroptera
Family:	Veliidae
Genus:	Microvelia
Species:	M. americana
Binomial name
Microvelia americana (Uhler, 1884)

Microvelia americana, also known as the Broad-Shouldered Water Strider, is a species of smaller water strider in the family Veliidae. It is found in North America.

References

1. "Microvelia americana Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
2. "Microvelia americana". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
3. "Microvelia americana species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-24.

Further reading

• DeKay, J. E. (1843). Zoology of New-York or the New-York Fauna, Part V. Mollusca. Carroll and Cook.
• Stevens, Lawrence E.; Polhemus, John T. (2008). "Biogeography Of aquatic and semiaquatic Heteroptera in the Grand Canyon ecoregion, southwestern USA". Monographs of the Western North American Naturalist. 4: 38–76. doi:10.3398/1545-0228-4.1.38. S2CID 55314508.

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