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  1. Life
  2. Animals
  3. Arthropods
  4. Insects
  5. True Bugs, Hoppers, Aphids, and Allies
  6. Typical Backswimmers
  7. Notonectini
  8. Milky Backswimmers

genus

Milky Backswimmers

Notonecta

Includes
13 native
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Children

  • Paranecta 9 native
  • Erythronecta 2 native
  • Bichromonecta 1 native
  • Notonecta 1 native

Range

United States

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

Most observed native milky backswimmers All

Native to the US, by observations.

  • Kirby's Backswimmer Notonecta kirbyi 959 observations
  • Backswimmer Notonecta indica 66 observations

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