Cercotmetus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Heteroptera
Superfamily: Nepoidea
Family: Nepidae
Subfamily: Ranatrinae
Genus: Cercotmetus
Amyot & Serville, 1843

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.

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]

  • Cercotmetus asiaticus Amyot & Serville, 1843 - type species
  • Cercotmetus brevipes Montandon, 1909
  • Cercotmetus compositus Montandon, 1903
  • Cercotmetus dissidens Montandon, 1911
  • Cercotmetus fumosus Distant, 1904
  • Cercotmetus horni Montandon, 1911
  • Cercotmetus minutus Keffer & J.Polhemus, 1999
  • Cercotmetus pilipes (Dallas, 1850)
  • Cercotmetus robustus Montandon, 1911
  • Cercotmetus strangulatus Montandon, 1911

References

  1. ↑ Amyot CJ-B, Serville JGA (1843) (Roret's Suites à Buffon): Hémiptères
  2. ↑ Lansbury I (1973) A review of the genus Cercotmetus Amyot & Serville, 1843 (Hemiptera-Heteroptera: Nepidae). Tijdschrift voor Entomologie, 116 [5] 83-106.
  3. ↑ Chen P; Nieser N; Ho JZ (2004). "Review of Chinese Ranatrinae (Hemiptera: Nepidae), with descriptions of four new species of Ranatra Fabricius". Tijdschrift voor Entomologie. 147 (1): 81–102. doi:10.1163/22119434-900000142.
  4. ↑ Global Biodiversity Information Facility: Cercotmetus Amyot & Serville, 1843 (retrieved 13 January 2021)
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