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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » True Bugs (Heteroptera) » Aquatic Bugs (Nepomorpha) » Notonectoidea » Backswimmers (Notonectidae) » Notonecta
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Backswimmer - Notonecta
Copyright © 2015 Stephen Hart

Backswimmer - Notonecta
Olympic National Park, Clallam County, Washington, USA
July 16, 2015
Abundant in Pumpkinseed Lake, more like a pond, south of Obstruction Point. They were very actively diving.
The red specks are cyclops, also locally abundant in the lake.
Another individual:
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Contributed by Stephen Hart on 24 July, 2015 - 5:03pm
Last updated 30 October, 2020 - 8:32am

Moved
Moved from Backswimmers.
… Matthew Pintar, 30 October, 2020 - 8:32am login or register to post comments

Notonecta nymph
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That's as far as we can go with this specimen.
… Brady Richards, 24 July, 2015 - 11:54pm login or register to post comments

not a corixid (they don't swim belly up)... Buenoa?
must see dorsum

Moved from Water Boatmen.
… v belov, 24 July, 2015 - 7:31pm login or register to post comments

 
Dorsum
Thanks for the correction.
Both shots are in the field, and I never saw the dorsum. Also, this was in the National Park, so I didn't bring my dipnet.
… Stephen Hart, 24 July, 2015 - 7:49pm login or register to post comments

 
i see, thanx
… v belov, 24 July, 2015 - 7:52pm login or register to post comments

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