Heteroptera

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Synonyms:  Curicta fusca Palisot
                                           (Kirkaldy & Torre-Bueno 1909)

As Subspecies:
                    Ranatra fusca edentula (Montandon)
                                             (Polhemus 1988)
                    Ranatra fusca fusca Palisot
                                              (Polhemus 1988)

1909 Kirkaldy & Torre-
         Bueno

1982 Lind
[1988 Polhemus]

1994 Sites & Polhemus

notes:

-the most widespread and common of Ranatra species in the U. S. (Sites & Polhemus 1994)

-usually in ponds, a few have been taken from rivers (Sites & Polhemus 1994)

-reports of this species in Texas as Curicta fusca prior to 1909 may be based on misidentification (Kirkaldy & Torre-Bueno 1909)

-specimens identified as R. fusca from Colorado & Lee Counties are now recognized as R. buenoi (Hungerford 1922c)