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  1. Life
  2. Animals
  3. Arthropods
  4. Insects
  5. True Bugs, Hoppers, Aphids, and Allies
  6. Waterscorpions
  7. Ranatrinae
  8. Ranatra

genus

Ranatra

Ranatra

Includes
9 native
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Children

  • Brown Waterscorpion native
  • Needle Bug
  • Ranatra quadridentata native
  • Ranatra buenoi native
  • Ranatra australis native
  • Ranatra kirkaldyi native
  • Ranatra nigra native
  • Western Waterscorpion native
  • Ranatra drakei native
  • Ranatra texana native
  • Ranatra montezuma native

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Most observed native Ranatra All

Native to the US, by observations.

  • Brown Waterscorpion Ranatra fusca 1,902 observations
  • Ranatra quadridentata 211 observations
  • Ranatra australis 41 observations
  • Ranatra buenoi 41 observations
  • Ranatra kirkaldyi 35 observations
  • Ranatra nigra 20 observations
  • Western Waterscorpion Ranatra brevicollis 19 observations
  • Ranatra drakei 16 observations
  • Ranatra texana 9 observations
  • Ranatra montezuma 1 observations

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