Heteroptera

 Photogallery: 

Synonyms: 

As Subspecies:
                   Pelocoris femoratus femoratus (Palisot)
                                            (Beaty 1978; BFL 1999c; Davis 1996; Jasper 1996; Polhemus & Sites 1995; Sites & Polhemus
                                              1995; Sites & Willig 1991)

1978 Beaty

1991 Sites & Willig
[1995 Polhemus & Sites]
1995 Sites & Polhemus
1996 Davis
1996 Jasper
1999c BFL

notes:

-typically in lentic habitats including ponds, bogs, marshes and littoral region of lakes, along roots and leaves of floating or rooted macrophytes (Gonsoulin 1973 in Davis 1996)

-tolerates highly turbid, stagnant conditions (Gonsoulin 1973 in Davis 1996)

-Sites & Willig (1991) report of P. femoratus from S. Llano River is actually P. biimpressus (Sites & Polhemus 1995)