Ranatra fusca

Ranatra fusca
Ranatra fusca caught in Portage, MI
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Heteroptera
Family: Nepidae
Genus: Ranatra
Species: R. fusca
Binomial name
Ranatra fusca
Palisot de Beauvois, 1820

Ranatra fusca is a water stick-insect in the family Nepidae, native to North America. It is known by the common name brown water scorpion.[1][2]

References

  1. Rantra fusca. itis.gov Accessed 2010-11-27.
  2. Packauskas, Richard Jaunutis & McPherson, J. E. (1986). "Life history and laboratory rearing of Ranatra fusca (Hemiptera: Nepidae) with descriptions of immature stages". Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 79 (4): 566571. Abstract


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