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Species Mesovelia mulsanti - Mulsant's Water Treader

Female, Mesovelia mulsanti? - Mesovelia mulsanti - female

Male, Mesovelia mulsanti? - Mesovelia mulsanti - male

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Hemiptera (True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies)

Suborder Heteroptera (True Bugs)

Infraorder Gerromorpha (Semiaquatic Bugs)

Family Mesoveliidae (Water Treaders)

Genus Mesovelia

Species mulsanti (Mulsant's Water Treader)

Explanation of Names

Mesovelia mulsanti White 1879

named after French entomologist and ornithologist Martial Étienne Mulsant (1797 - 1880)

Size

3-4 mm

Identification

Det. M. A. Quinn, 2009

Range

e. NA to BC / s. to Argentina; the most common member of the genus throughout e. US(1)(2)

Habitat

lentic waters, usually on open water near margins; also in salt marshes(2)

Season

mostly: Jun-Oct, longer in FL & TX (BG data)

Remarks

comes to lights

Works Cited

1.	Checklist of the Hemiptera of Canada and Alaska Maw, H.E.L., R.G. Foottit, K.G.A. Hamilton and G.G.E. Scudder. 2000. NRC Research Press.

2.	Identification manual for the aquatic and semi-aquatic Heteroptera of Florida Epler J.H. 2006. FL Dept. Env. Prot., Tallahassee, FL. 186 pp.

Contributed by tom murray on 13 January, 2008 - 4:15pm
Additional contributions by Bbarnd, Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 23 January, 2021 - 10:34am

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