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Definition of Genus Gerris
1. Noun. Type genus of the Gerrididae.
Generic synonyms: Arthropod Genus
Group relationships: Family Gerridae, Family Gerrididae, Gerridae, Gerrididae
Member holonyms: Common Pond-skater, Gerris Lacustris
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Gerris
Literary usage of Genus Gerris
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1838)
"... spotted with black, the thorax brown, with two white spots, and the elytra
each with four white spots. The principal characters of the genus Gerris ..."
2. Guide to the Study of Insects, and a Treatise on Those Injurious and by Alpheus Spring Packard (1870)
"The well known genus Gerris has the ocelli present, the abdomen long and slender,
while the prothorax is very large, covering the mesothorax. ..."
3. Guide to the Study of Insects and a Treatise on Those Injurious and by Alpheus Spring Packard (1878)
"The well known genus Gerris has the ocelli present, the abdomen long and slender,
while the prothorax is very largo, covering the ..."
4. The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine by Nathaniel Lloyd and Company (1884)
"These very remarkable insects, which are allied to the common aquatic genus
Gerris, are quite destitute of elytra and wings, have a thorax often occupying ..."
5. The Entomologist; an Illustrated Journal of General Entomology by Edward Newman, Royal Entomological Society of London (1898)
"Having regard to the specific variation in the proportions of the antennae in
the extensive genus Gerris, Fabr., it would seem well not to base other genera ..."
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