Halobates or sea skaters are a genus with over 40 species of water striders. Most Halobates species are coastal and typically found in sheltered marine...

Gerridae are freshwater bugs, the oceanic Halobates makes the family quite exceptional among insects. The genus Halobates was first heavily studied between 1822...

Halobates micans is a species of water strider in the family Gerridae. It is one of five Halobates species that live on the surface of the open ocean,...

in Halobates, a genus of water striders in the family Gerridae. Halobates acherontis J.Polhemus, 1982 g Halobates alluaudi Bergroth, 1893 g Halobates browni...

prototype hydrofoil boat completed was the Halobates, in 1957 with an U.S. Navy LCVP(H) as the hull. Halobates had water wings and could do more than 40...

Oceania, and temperate Asia. "Halobates sericeus Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-24. "Halobates sericeus". GBIF. Retrieved...

Philippines. "Halobates princeps White, 1883". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 2022-12-16. "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Halobates (Halobates) princeps...

The desert locust Schistocerca gregaria laying eggs in sand Sea skater Halobates on a Hawaii beach Insects are distributed over every continent and almost...

former locomoting on the water surface; a few of these are marine (e.g., Halobates, Hermatobates). Semiaquatic springtails, such as Anurida maritima Semiterrestrial...

insects: genital morphology, phylogeny and evolution of sea skaters, genus Halobates (Hemiptera: Gerridae)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 103...

65 mph (56 kn; 105 km/h) and was mistaken for a seaplane due to its shape. Halobates was a 1957 US Navy prototype hydrofoil boat built by Miami Shipbuilding...

Baikaloperla, are the only known insects, perhaps with the exception of Halobates, that are exclusively aquatic from birth to death. Some true water bugs...

keep them above the surface; they include the sea skaters in the genus Halobates, the only truly marine group of insects. Marangoni effect propulsion exploits...

Buchanan White redescribed the known species of the Hemiptera genus Halobates and he illustrated 11 species in colour, with numerous drawings in black...

AINLEY, D.G. (2010) "Importance of marine insects (Heteroptera: Gerridae, Halobates spp.) as prey of eastern tropical Pacific seabirds". Marine Ornithology...

number of pelagic fishes that prey on open-ocean species of sea-skaters (Halobates spp.), a type of insects which rest on the surface of the ocean. Rainbow...

Young Halobates may hatch either above or below the surface, and for those below, the surface tension proves a formidable barrier. It may take Halobates nymphs...

or a planktivorous fish. Upon examination, they consume smaller fish, Halobates (sea skaters), members of the order “Siphonophores,” and smaller cartilaginous...

insects: genital morphology, phylogeny and evolution of sea skaters, genus Halobates (Hemiptera: Gerridae)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 103...

islands to study the behaviour of Halobates. Among his ideas was the "Trafalgar Effect", that groups of Halobates could relay indication of a predator...

T. (1993). "Predation of fishes on open-ocean species of sea-skaters (Halobates spp.)". Japanese Journal of Ichthyology. 40 (2): 193–198. Whitfield, A...

Gerridae Genus: Trepobates Species: T. pictus Binomial name Trepobates pictus (Herrich-schaeffer, 1847) Synonyms Halobates pictus Herrich-Schaeffer, 1847...

1794 i c g b Gerrisella Poisson, 1940 d Gigantometra (China, 1925) d Halobates Eschscholtz, 1822 i c g b Iobates Polhemus & Polhemus, 1993 g Lathriobates...

Genus Species Presence Notes Images Halobates H. ruffoi Pesciara A sea skater, the earliest known from the fossil record....

Ainley, D.G (2010). "Importance of marine insects (Heteroptera: Gerridae, Halobates spp.) as prey of eastern tropical Pacific seabirds" (PDF). Marine Ornithology...

depart flocks for reasons other than predator detection. Water skaters (Halobates robustus) transmit predator avoidance behaviour to the group through the...

Monthly Magazine. 29: 24–30, 57–61. Walker, James J. (1893). "On the genus Halobates, Esch., and other marine hemiptera". The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine...