Cercotmetus

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Cercotmetus[1][2] is a genus of water bugs in the subfamily Ranatrinae ("water stick-insects"). The recorded distribution of this genus is from is from mainland Asia to New Guinea and northern Australia.

Phylum:Arthropoda
Class:Insecta
Order:Hemiptera
Suborder:Heteroptera
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Cercotmetus
Cercotmetus brevipes
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Heteroptera
Superfamily: Nepoidea
Family: Nepidae
Subfamily: Ranatrinae
Genus: Cercotmetus
Amyot & Serville, 1843
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Description

Cercotmetus species are similar to the related genus Ranatra, but have distinctly shorter respiratory siphons (posterior breathing tubes, which are ¼ or less of the body length) and the front femur is shorter than length of the pronotum.[3]

Species

The Global Biodiversity Information Facility lists:[4]

  1. Cercotmetus asiaticus Amyot & Serville, 1843 - type species
  2. Cercotmetus brevipes Montandon, 1909
  3. Cercotmetus compositus Montandon, 1903
  4. Cercotmetus dissidens Montandon, 1911
  5. Cercotmetus fumosus Distant, 1904
  6. Cercotmetus horni Montandon, 1911
  7. Cercotmetus minutus Keffer & J.Polhemus, 1999
  8. Cercotmetus pilipes (Dallas, 1850)
  9. Cercotmetus robustus Montandon, 1911
  10. Cercotmetus strangulatus Montandon, 1911

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