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Common Name:
Water Strider

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Class: Insecta
Subclass:
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Heteroptera
Infraorder: Gerromorpha
Superfamily: Gerroidea
Family: Gerridae
Subfamily: Trepobatinae
Tribe:
Species:
Trepobates subnitidus

Hodges No:

Location:
Prospect Park
Brooklyn, NY
USA
GPS: 40.663647,-73.969359

Date: 7/7/12

Stage:
Sex:
Notes: Plants = Water Fern (Azola) and Duckweed

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Trepobates subnitidus Gerridae
Water Strider
Identifications represent best guesses on my part and are not intended to be authoritative.
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