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

family

Waterscorpions

Nepidae

Includes
12 native
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Children

  • Ranatrinae 9 native
  • Nepinae 3 native

Range

United States

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

Most observed native waterscorpions 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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