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Water Scorpion - Ranatra fusca
Copyright © 2005 Tony Thomas

Water Scorpion - Ranatra fusca
Fredericton, York County, New Brunswick, Canada
April 9, 2005
Size: 71 mm extreme length
Not much activity here terrestrially so I tried a local pond. Came up with this water scorpion. You can see the grabbing end extended on the left front leg and the breathing tube breaking the surface film.
Nowhere near as colouful as the Georgia specimen Photo# 1611.
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Contributed by Tony Thomas on 10 April, 2005 - 5:40pm
Last updated 15 April, 2005 - 4:53pm

Ranatra fusca
Only 1 species of Ranatra is listed for New Brunswick in the "Checklist of Hemiptera of Canada and Alaska" (pub 2000) and that is Ranatra fusca, so I guess that is what this is.

Only two other species are listed for Canada at all; R. kirkaldyi and R. nigra, both rare in Ontario only.
… David Bree, 15 April, 2005 - 1:12pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks David
name seems appropriate, colour was brown. I've used this as the common name.
Anthony W. Thomas
… Tony Thomas, 15 April, 2005 - 4:54pm login or register to post comments

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