Cedar Creek
Ecosystem Science Reserve
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Insects of Cedar Creek
Order HEMIPTERA
Family NEPIDAE
(Water Scorpions)
Ranatra fusca, the elongate Water Scorpion, with raptorial
forelimbs and elongate breathing tube is a common underwater predator in
most waters on Cedar Creek.
R. nigra? and
R. kirkaldyi?
may also have been collected.
Nepa
apiculata, a more robust form, is quite rare. Only 13
species in this small family occur in North America.