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Nepidae Family: Water Scorpions

Ranatra fusca

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• Common Name: Common Brown Water Scorpion
• Identifying Features: Its thin body and long respitory siphon
• Size of Mature Adult: about 5cm
• Habitat: Submergent vegetation
• Figures:

  a. Nymph