Ranatra fusca | |
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Taken at Cincinnati Zoo | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hemiptera |
Suborder: | Heteroptera |
Family: | Nepidae |
Genus: | Ranatra |
Species: | R. fusca |
Binomial name | |
Ranatra fusca Palisot de Beauvois, 1820 |
Ranatra fusca is a water stick-insect in the family Nepidae, native to North America. It is known by the common name brown water scorpion.