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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » True Bugs (Heteroptera) » Waterscorpions (Nepidae) » Ranatra

Genus Ranatra

Classification · Numbers · Identification · Remarks · Works Cited
Brown Waterscorpion - Ranatra fusca Water Scorpion (Ranatra sp.) - Ranatra quadridentata Water Scorpion (Ranatra sp.) - Ranatra quadridentata What the heck is this???? - Ranatra fusca Water scorpion, Ranatra sp - Ranatra kirkaldyi Water scorpion, Ranatra sp - Ranatra kirkaldyi Unknown Ranatra (Hemiptera: Nepidae) - Ranatra quadridentata Unknown Ranatra (Hemiptera: Nepidae) - Ranatra quadridentata
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Hemiptera (True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies)
Suborder Heteroptera (True Bugs)
Family Nepidae (Waterscorpions)
Genus Ranatra
Numbers
10 nearctic species (1)
Identification
Long and slender relative to the other genera. (1)
Remarks
Nearctica.com lists the ten species.
Works Cited
1.American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico
By Ross H. Arnett
Contributed by Troy Bartlett on 6 April, 2004 - 4:29pm

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