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

superfamily

Nepoidea

Nepoidea

Includes
28 native 2 present
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Children

  • Giant Water Bugs 16 native
  • Waterscorpions 12 native

Range

United States

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

Most observed native Nepoidea All

Native to the US, by observations.

  • American Giant Water Bug Lethocerus americanus 8,754 observations
  • Uhler's Giant Water Bug Lethocerus uhleri 2,641 observations
  • Brown Waterscorpion Ranatra fusca 1,902 observations
  • Eastern Toe-biter Benacus griseus 1,824 observations
  • Belostoma flumineum 1,479 observations
  • Belostoma lutarium 575 observations
  • Ranatra quadridentata 211 observations
  • Belostoma testaceum 51 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
  • Abedus immaculatus 16 observations
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