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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) » Ochteroidea » Velvety Shore Bugs (Ochteridae) » Ochterus
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Velvety Shore Bug - Ochterus
Copyright © 2010 tom murray

Velvety Shore Bug - Ochterus
Groton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
May 9, 2010
Size: 3.8mm
Found at the edge of Wrangling Brook.

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Contributed by tom murray on 10 May, 2010 - 7:45am
Last updated 10 May, 2010 - 5:28pm

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Thanks Ken. It looks like you're right with Ochterus! The only one listed on the UNH site is O. americanus. Now to find an adult:-)
… tom murray, 10 May, 2010 - 5:28pm login or register to post comments

Almost looks more like
Ochteridae...



But that's strictly a guess on my part. It didn't really look like most of the Toad Bug nymphs in the Guide, so I went searching for something else--and this is the closest I came to a match.

Let's see what the experts have to say.
… Ken Wolgemuth, 10 May, 2010 - 8:22am login or register to post comments

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