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Species Notonecta lobata

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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 Nepomorpha (Aquatic Bugs)
Superfamily Notonectoidea
Family Notonectidae (Backswimmers)
Genus Notonecta
No Taxon (subgenus Erythronecta)
Species lobata (Notonecta lobata)
Explanation of Names
Notonecta lobata Hungerford 1925
Size
Length 13-14 mm (Hungerford 1933)
Identification
Color can be informative but highly variable. Typically red and black. Some specimens are brownish black with beige trimmings and others are greenish-tan. All have the head, pronotum and limbs yellow or gray and scutellum and membrane of hemelytron black. The hemelytra, excepting the membrane, are typically red. The males of the red forms frequently have the black of the membrane extending forward upon the distal portion of clavus and corium. The pale and dark forms have only the slightest suggestion of red. (Hungerford 1933)
Range
AZ-TX / Mex. (1)
locally common, occurs as far east as Austin, TX
Season
Mar-Nov in AZ (Hungerford 1933)
Remarks
Type series: Seventeen specimens taken by P. A. Glick, November 11, 1922, in the Superstition Mountains, Arizona. (Hungerford 1933)
Print References
Hungerford, H.B. 1933. The genus Notonecta of the world (Notonectidæ-Hemiptera). The University of Kansas Science Bulletin 21(1): 5-195. (Full Text)
Works Cited
1.Catalog of the Heteroptera, or True Bugs of Canada and the Continental United States
Thomas J. Henry, Richard C. Froeschner. 1988. Brill Academic Publishers.