Illinois Natural History Survey - University of Illinois

Korch, P. P., III and J. E. McPherson. 1987. Life history and laboratory rearing of Gerris argenticollis (Hemiptera: Gerridae) with descriptions of immature stages. The Great Lakes Entomologist. 20(4): 193-204.

McPherson, J. E. 1988. Life history of Mesovelia mulsanti (Hemiptera: Mesoveliidae) in Southern Illinois. The Great Lakes Entomologist. 21(1): 19-23.

McPherson, J. E. 1989. An overview of the Heteroptera of Illinois. The Great Lakes Entomologist. 22(4): 177-198.

McPherson, J. E. and S. J. Taylor. 1993. Distinguishing nymphal instars of Mesovelia mulsanti (Heteroptera: Mesoveliidae). The Great Lakes Entomologist 26(3):233-236.

Taylor, S. J. 1996. Habitat preferences, species assemblages, and resource partitioning by Gerromorpha (Insecta: Heteroptera) in southern Illinois, with a faunal list and keys to species of the state. Ph.D. Dissertation in Zoology, Zoology Department, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, Carbondale, Illinois. xviii + 345 pp.

Taylor, S. J. and J. E. McPherson. 1998. Laboratory rearing of Mesovelia cryptophila (Heteroptera: Mesoveliidae). Entomological News 109(2):95-98.

Taylor, S. J. and J. E. McPherson. 1998. Voltinism in Neogerris hesione (Heteroptera: Gerridae) in southern Illinois. Entomological News 109(4):233-239.

Taylor, S. J. and J. E. McPherson. 1998. Voltinism in Merragata brunnea (Heteroptera: Gerromorpha: Hebridae) in southern Illinois. Florida Entomologist 81(4):509-515.

Taylor, S. J. and J. E. McPherson. 1999. Morphological variation and polyvoltinism of Microvelia pulchella (Heteroptera: Veliidae) in southern Illinois, USA. Acta Societaris Zoologicae Bohemicae 63:237-249.

Taylor, S. J. and J. E. McPherson. 2000 [published April 2002]. Comparison of two population sampling methods used in field life history studies of Mesovelia mulsanti (Heteroptera: Gerromorpha: Mesoveliidae) in southern Illinois. The Great Lakes Entomologist 33(3-4):223-230.

Taylor, S. J. and J. E. McPherson. 2004. Voltinism and laboratory rearing of Microvelia hinei (Heteroptera: Gerromorpha: Veliidae). Great Lakes Entomologist 36(1-2):1-9.

Taylor, S. J. and D. L. Wood. 2000. Rearing Hydrometra martini (Heteroptera: Hydrometridae): food and substrate effects. Florida Entomologist 83(1):17-25.

Wood, D. L. and J. E. McPherson. 1995. Life history and laboratory rearing of Hydrometra hungerfordi Torre-Bueno (Heteroptera: Hydrometridae) with descriptions of immature stages. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 97(3): 717-728.

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