The water striders of Pakistan (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Gerridae): new records from Punjab and first checklist for the country Author Cianferoni, Fabio National Research Council of Italy, Research Institute on Terrestrial Ecosystems (CNR-IRET), Via Madonna del Piano 10, I- 50019 Sesto Fiorentino (Florence), Italy. & University of Florence, Natural History Museum, “ La Specola ”, Zoology, Via Romana 17, I- 50125 Florence, Italy. Author Saleem, Rukhshanda 0000-0001-5291-2843 University of Gujrat, Department of Zoology, Hafiz Hayat Campus, Jalalpur Jattan Road, Gujrat, Punjab 50700, Pakistan. sumera. afsheen @ uog. edu. pk; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 5291 - 2843 & University of Sialkot, 1 - km Main Daska Road, Sialkot, Punjab 51310, Pakistan. sumera.afsheen@uog.edu.pk Author Afsheen, Sumera 0000-0001-5291-2843 University of Gujrat, Department of Zoology, Hafiz Hayat Campus, Jalalpur Jattan Road, Gujrat, Punjab 50700, Pakistan. sumera. afsheen @ uog. edu. pk; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 5291 - 2843 sumera.afsheen@uog.edu.pk Author Zia, Ahmed NARC-National Agricultural Research Centre, Park Road, Islamabad 44000, Pakistan. text Zootaxa 2021 2021-07-06 4996 3 469 491 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.4996.3.3 1175-5326 5074713 205E48E2-AA8C-488D-81CB-46AF357FA60B Fauna of Gerridae recorded in Pakistan and neighbouring countries Data presented in Table 3 are from Andersen (1995), Hufnagel (2000) , Chandra et al. (2012) , Ghahari et al. (2013) , Damgaard et al. (2014) , Basu et al. (2018) , Román-Palacios et al. (2020) , and the present work. The following symbols are used: ● = record from literature; ● = first country record (by the present work); – = absence from landlocked country because of marine species.