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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 » Ochterus americanus
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Shore bug - Ochterus americanus
Copyright © 2011 Charley Eiseman

Shore bug - Ochterus americanus
Colchester Pond Natural Area, Colchester, Chittenden County, Vermont, USA
June 27, 2011
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Contributed by Charley Eiseman on 15 November, 2011 - 1:04am
Last updated 15 November, 2011 - 6:15am

Gorgeous
Nice pic!
… Jeff Gruber, 15 November, 2011 - 12:07pm login or register to post comments

=!=
Moved from Shore Bugs.
… v belov, 15 November, 2011 - 6:15am login or register to post comments

 
Oops, wrong infraorder
No wonder I wasn't finding a match...
… Charley Eiseman, 15 November, 2011 - 8:05am login or register to post comments

 
the oddly positioned shortish antennae give them away
awesome, cute bugs
… v belov, 15 November, 2011 - 8:12am login or register to post comments

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