found: ITIS, Feb. 10, 2001(Mesoveliidae. Vernacular name: water treaders. Rank: family. Usage: valid. Order: Heteroptera)
found: Arnett, R.H. American insects, c1993:p. 201 (Mesoveliidae, Water Treader Bug Family. Order Hemiptera)
found: Slater, J.A. How to know the true bugs (Hemiptera--Heteroptera), c1978:p. 217 (Mesoveliidae, the Water Treaders)
found: Schuh, R.T. True bugs of the world (Hemiptera:Heteroptera), 1995:p. 88 (Mesoveliidae; thought to be the relatively most primitive of all semiaquatic bugs)
found: Dolling, W.R. The Hemiptera, 1991:p. 82 (Mesoveliidae. Pondweed bugs. Infraorder Gerromorpha)
found: Andersen, N.M. The semiaquatic bugs (Hemiptera, Gerromorpha), 1982:p. 22 (Mesoveliidae (incl. Madeoveliidae) - water treaders or pondweed bugs)