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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) » Nepoidea » Waterscorpions (Nepidae) » Ranatra » Ranatra brevicollis

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Copyright © 2009 Andrew Williams

Stabwanze - Ranatra brevicollis

Ojai, Ventura County, California, USA
July 11, 2002

This water scorpion may have been a slight bit more inland. Found in a shallow creek on a camping trip. Can't remember the "precise" location.
Help with ID appreciated.

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Contributed by Andrew Williams on 7 November, 2009 - 12:56pm
Last updated 1 February, 2010 - 12:33pm

Moved tentatively -- brevicollis makes perfect sense

Moved from Ranatra.

… v belov, 1 February, 2010 - 12:33pm

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R. brevicollis, perhaps.

Someone more familiar with Californian waterscorpions may want to double-check this, but according to Sites & Polhemus' "Nepidae of the United States and Canada," Ranatra brevicollis is the only waterscorpion known to exist in this part of the state. Ranatra quadridentata only occurs farther to the southeast, and Ranatra fusca apparently does not occur south of Bakersfield (approximately).

… Eric C. Maxwell, 19 November, 2009 - 1:39am

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thanks

for the ID input Eric. I appreciate it.

… Andrew Williams, 19 November, 2009 - 9:46am

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Moved

Moved from ID Request.

… Andrew Williams, 7 November, 2009 - 7:04pm

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unleß a pun is intended, it's Waßerskorpion :-]

however, the term applies to Nepa spp. rather than Ranatra (which is called Stabwanze)

… v belov, 7 November, 2009 - 1:48pm

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joke intended but kind of botched :-)

How'd you make the special character?

… Andrew Williams, 7 November, 2009 - 1:56pm

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special characters are all in the MSWindows Character Map

*

… v belov, 7 November, 2009 - 2:09pm

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It's out of use even in Germany

since the last revision of the 'Duden' and Wasser was never spelled with it anyway. One of the tricks of German spelling....(-:

… margarethe brummermann, 7 November, 2009 - 9:45pm

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(-: indeed

frankly, i knew that Wasser is spelled the dull way; i just love peculiar characters too much to let them fall into disuse, which in my case always leads to abuse :-]

… v belov, 11 November, 2009 - 11:04am

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