Ranatra fusca
| Ranatra fusca | |
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| 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
- ↑ Rantra fusca. itis.gov Accessed 2010-11-27.
- ↑ Packauskas, Richard Jaunutis and 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): 566–571. Abstract
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