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- Amyot, C.J.B. & Audinet-Serville, J.G. 1843. Histoire Naturelle des Insects. Hémiptères. Paris : Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret, Rue Hautefeuille 10 B13 676 pp.
- Andersen, N.M. & Weir, T.A. 2004. Australian Water Bugs. Their Biology and Identification (Hemiptera-Heteroptera, Gerromorpha & Nepomorpha). Entomonographen Denmark : Apollo Books Vol. 14 344 pp.
- Bailey, P.C.E. 1984. Studies on the predatory ecology of a sit-and-wait predator, Ranatra dispar (Heteroptera: Nepidae). Entomological Society of Queensland News Bulletin 12: 115-135
- Bailey, P.C.E. 1986. The feeding behaviour of a sit-and-wait predator, Ranatra dispar (Heteroptera: Nepidae): description of behavioural components of prey capture and the effect of food deprivation on predator arousal and capture dynamics. Behaviour 97: 66-94
- Bailey, P.C.E. 1986. The feeding behaviour of a sit-and-wait predator, Ranatra dispar (Heteroptera: Nepidae): optimal foraging and feeding dynamics. Oecologia (Berlin) 68: 291-297
- Bailey, P.C.E. 1986. The feeding behaviour of a sit-and-wait predator, Ranatra dispar (Heteroptera: Nepidae): the combined effect of food deprivation and prey size on the behavioural components of predator arousal and prey capture. Ethology 71: 315-332
- Bailey, P.C.E. 1986. The feeding behaviour of a sit-and-wait predator, Ranatra dispar (Heteroptera: Nepidae): the effect of prey density and age-structure on the number of prey eaten. Journal of Ethology 3: 105-112
- Bailey, P.C.E. 1988. The effect of water temperature on the functional response of the water stick insect Ranatra dispar (Heteroptera: Nepidae). Australian Journal of Ecology 14: 381-386
- Bergroth, E. 1916. Heteropterous Hemiptera collected by Professor W. Baldwin Spencer during the Horn Expedition into Central Australia. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria ns 29: 19-39
- Campbell, T.G. 1927. Water bugs. Australian Museum Magazine 3: 90-96
- Carver, M., Gross, G.F. & Woodward, T.E. 1991. Hemiptera (bugs, leafhoppers, cicadas, aphids, scale insects, etc.) [with contributions by Cassis, G., Evans, J.W., Fletcher, M.J., Hill, L., Lansbury, I., Malipatil, M.B., Monteith, G.B., Moulds, M.S., Polhemus, J.T., Slater, J.A., Štys, P., Taylor, K.L., Weir, T.A. & Williams, D.J.]. pp. 429-509 in CSIRO (ed.). The Insects of Australia. A textbook for students and research workers. Melbourne : Melbourne University Press Vol. 1 xiii 542 pp.
- Cassis, G. & Gross, G.F. 1995. Hemiptera: Heteroptera (Coleorrhuncha to Cimicomorpha). pp. 1-501 in Houston, W.W.K. & Maynard, G.V. (eds). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Hemiptera: Coleorrhyncha to Cimicomorpha. Melbourne : CSIRO Australia Vol. 27.3A xv 506 pp.
- Champion, G.C. 1901. Insecta: Rhynchota (Hemiptera-Heteroptera). pp. 1-416 in Godman, F.D. & Salvin, O. (eds). Biologia Centrali-Americana; or, contributions to the knowledge of the fauna and flora of Mexico and central America, Zoology. London : Dulau Vol. 2 xvi 416 pp., 22 pls. [1897: 1–32; 1898: 33–192; 1899: 193–304; 1900: 305–344; 1901: xvi 345–416]
- De Carlo, J.A. 1967. Differencias entre Ranatridae y Nepidae. Division de la familia Ranatridae en Ranatrinae and Curictinae. Revista de la Sociedad Entomológica Argentina 29: 21-29
- De Carlo, J.A. 1968. Redescripción y aparato genital masculino de Austronepa angusta (Hale) (Heteroptera: Ranatridae). Physis (Buenos Aires) 27(75): 343-347
- De Carlo, J.A. 1968. Redescription and genital apparatus of the male of Austronepa angusta (Hale) (Hemiptera: Ranatridae). Physis (Buenos Aires) 27(75): 343-347
- De Carlo, J.A. 1968. The female genital apparatus of Ranatra (Hemiptera: Ranatridae). Physis (Buenos Aires) 28: 199-201
- Distant, W.L. 1906. The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Rhynchota (Heteroptera—Homoptera). London : Taylor & Francis Vol. 3 xiv 503 pp.
- Distant, W.L. 1910. The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Rhynchota. London : Taylor & Francis Vol. 5 xii 362 pp.
- Fabricius, J.C. 1790. Nova insectorum genera. Skrifter af Naturhistorie-Selskabet. Kjøbenhavn 1: 213-228
- Ferrari, E. von 1888. Die Hemipteren-Gattung Nepa Latr. (sens. natur.). Annalen des Naturhistorischen Hofmuseums in Wien 3: 161-194 pls VIII, IX
- Froeschner, R.C. 1981. Heteroptera or true bugs of Ecuador: a partial catalog. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 1981(322): iv 1-147
- Hale, H.M. 1924. Studies in Australian aquatic Hemiptera. No. III. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 2: 503-520 pls XXXIV-XXXV
- Johnson, N.F & Masner, L. 2004. The genus Thoron Haliday (Hymenoptera: Scelionidae), egg-parasitoids of waterscorpions (Herniptera: Nepidae), with key to world species. American Museum Novitates 23: 1-16
- Keffer, S.L. 1996. Systematics of the New World waterscorpion genus Curicta Stal (Heteroptera: Nepidae). Journal of the New York Entomological Society 104(3-4): 117-215 [Date published 1997]
- Lansbury, I. 1967. Comparative morphology of the male Australian Nepidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera). Australian Journal of Zoology 15: 641-649
- Lansbury, I. 1972. A review of the Oriental species of Ranatra Fabricius (Hemiptera-Heteroptera: Nepidae). Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 124: 287-341
- Lansbury, I. 1972. A revision of the genus Telmatotrephes Stål (Hemiptera-Heteroptera, Nepidae). Zoologica Scripta 1: 271-286
- Lansbury, I. 1973. Montonepa gen.n. from India with notes on the genus Borborophyes Stål (Hemiptera-Heteroptera, Nepidae). Zoologica Scripta 2: 111-118
- Lansbury, I. 1973. A review of the genus Cercotmetus Amyot & Serville, 1843 (Hemiptera-Heteroptera: Nepidae). Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 116: 83-106
- Lansbury, I. 1974. A new genus of Nepidae from Australia with a revised classification of the family (Hemiptera: Heteroptera). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 13: 219-227
- Lansbury, I. 1974. Notes on Ranatra (Amphischizops) compressicollis Montandon with a review of its systematic position within the American Ranatra (Hemiptera-Heteroptera, Nepidae). Zoologica Scripta 3: 23-30
- Lansbury, I. 1975. Notes on additions, changes and the distribution of the Australian water-bug fauna (Hemiptera-Heteroptera). Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 36: 17-23
- Lansbury, I. 1978. A review of Goondnomdanepa Lansbury (Heteroptera: Nepidae). Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 29: 117-126
- Lundblad, O. 1933. Zur Kenntnis der aquatilen und semiaquatilen Hemipteren von Sumatra, Java und Bali auf Grund des Materials der Deutschen Limnologischen Sunda-Expedition, nebst Revision einiger anderer, indoaustralischer Arten. Archiv für Hydrobiologie 12: 1-195, 263-489
- McKeown, K.C. 1933. Aquatic insects. Australian Museum Magazine 5: 14-21
- McKeown, K.C. 1942. Australian Insects. An Introductory Handbook. Sydney : Sydney & Melbourne Publishing Co. Pty Ltd 303 pp.
- McKeown, K.C. 1943. Australian insects. XIX. Hemiptera—4. The bugs (Gelastocoridae-Corixidae). Australian Museum Magazine 8: 176-180
- Menke, A.S. 1979. Family Nepidae—Water Scorpions. pp. 70-75 in Menke, A.S. (ed.). The Semiaquatic and Aquatic Hemiptera of California (Heteroptera: Hemiptera). Berkeley : University of California Press.
- Menke, A.S. & Strange, L.A. 1964. A new genus of Nepidae from Australia with notes on the higher classification of the family. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 75: 67-72 pl. VII
- Montandon, A.L. 1898. Hémiptères-Hétéroptères, une nouvelle forme dans le genre Ranatra. Bulletin de la Société des Sciences de Bucarest-Roumanie 7: 56-58
- Montandon, A.L. 1903. Hémiptères aquatiques. Notes synonymiques et géographiques, descriptions d'espèces nouvelles. Bulletin de la Société des Sciences de Bucarest-Roumanie 12: 97-121
- Montandon, A.L. 1907. Quelques espèces du genre Ranatra des collections du Muséum de Paris. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 76: 49-66
- Montandon, A.L. 1909. Belostomidae et Nepidae. Notes diverses et description d'espèces nouvelles. Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici (Zoologica) 18: 59-70
- Montandon, A.L. 1909. Nepidae et Belostomidae. Notes diverses et descriptions d'espèces nouvelles. Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici (Zoologica) 7: 59-70
- Oshanin, B.F. 1912. Katalog der paläarktischen Hemipteren (Heteroptera, Homoptera—Auchenorhyncha und Psylloideae). Berlin : R. Friedländer & Sohn xvi 187 pp.
- Poisson, R. 1951. Ordre des Hétéroptères. (Heteroptera Latreille, 1810—Frontirostres Fallén, 1814). pp. 1657-1803 in Grassé, P.P. (ed.). Traité de Zoologie: Anatomie, Systématique, Biologie. Insectes supérieurs et Hémiptéroides. Paris : Masson & Cie Vol. 10.
- Poisson, R. 1954. Hémiptères aquatiques. Exploration du Parc National de l'Upemba. Mission G. F. de Witte 13: 1-53
- Poisson, R. 1965. Catalogue des Hétéroptères Hydrocorises africano-malagaches de la famile des Nepidae (Latreille) 1802. Bulletin de l'Institut Français d'Afrique Noire A 27: 229-269
- Polhemus, D.A. 1988. Family Nepidae Latreille, 1802; the water scorpions. pp. 528-532 in Henry, T.J. & Froeschner, R.C. (eds). Catalog of the Heteroptera, or True Bugs, of Canada and the Continental United States. Leiden : E.J. Brill xix 958 pp.
- Sites, R.W. & Polhemus, J.T. 1994. Nepidae (Hemiptera) of the United States and Canada. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 87: 27-40
- Skuse, F.A.A. 1893. Notes on Australian aquatic Hemiptera. (No. 1). Records of the Australian Museum 2: 42-45 pl. xi
- Slater, J.A. 1982. Hemiptera. pp. 417-447 in Parker, S.P. (ed.). Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms. New York : McGraw Hill Book Co.
- Staddon, B.W. & Thorne, M.J. 1979. The structure of the metathoracic scent gland system in Hydrocorisae (Heteroptera: Nepomorpha). Systematic Entomology 4: 239-250
- Stål, C. 1854. Nya Hemiptera. Öfversigt af Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar. Stockholm 11(8): 231-255
- Stål, C. 1865. Hemiptera Africana. Holmiae : Norstedtiana Vol. 3 200 pp.
- Štys, P. & Jansson, A. 1988. Check-list of recent family-group and genus-group names of Nepomorpha (Heteroptera) of the world. Acta Entomologica Fennica 50: 1-44
- Tillyard, R.J. 1926. The Insects of Australia and New Zealand. Sydney : Angus & Robertson Ltd 560 pp. 42 pls.
- Tryon, H. 1892. Zoology of British New Guinea, II Hemiptera. Annals of the Queensland Museum 2: 13-24
- Van Duzee, E.P. 1917. Catalogue of the Hemiptera of America north of Mexico, excepting the Aphididae, Coccidae and Aleurodidae. University of California Publications in Entomology. Technical Bulletin 2: xiv 1-902
- Villiers, A. 1952. Initiations Africaines. IX. Hémiptères de l'Afrique Noire (Punaiseset cigales). Institut Français d'Afrique Noire-Dakar 9: 1-256
- Woodward, T.E., Evans, J.W. & Eastop, V.F. 1970. Hemiptera (Bugs, leafhoppers, etc.). pp. 387-457 in CSIRO (ed.). The Insects of Australia. A textbook for students and research workers. Carlton : Melbourne University Press 1029 pp.
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