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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » True Bugs (Heteroptera) » Semiaquatic Bugs (Gerromorpha) » Hebroidea » Velvet Water Bugs (Hebridae) » Merragata » Merragata hebroides
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Merragata hebroides? - Merragata hebroides
Copyright © 2019 Salvador Vitanza

Merragata hebroides? - Merragata hebroides
Southwestern Research Station, Portal, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
August 13, 2019
Size: 1.8 mm
Coordinates: 31.883356, -109.208397
Elevation: 5,412 ft
Collected by Dr. Jeffrey Back (Baylor Univ.)

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Contributed by Salvador Vitanza on 20 August, 2019 - 6:00pm
Last updated 4 September, 2019 - 9:35pm

Nice images Salvador
This is definitely M. hebroides.
I posted a link to Drake (1917) and Menke (1979) which has key to species.
… Jeffrey A Back, 24 September, 2019 - 11:03am login or register to post comments

 
Thank you Jeffrey!
I appreciate you sharing your vast knowledge/experience on aquatic arthropods.
… Salvador Vitanza, 24 September, 2019 - 11:13am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Velvet Water Bugs.
… Brady Richards, 4 September, 2019 - 9:35pm login or register to post comments

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