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 Water measurer - Hydrometra stagnorum
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| nick upton |
Posted on 06-05-2010 12:09
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Member Location: Wiltshire, UK Posts: 828 Joined: 12.03.10 |
I think this stick insect-like bug has to be Hydrometra stagnorum - water walking with a springtail it is sucking. The only other UK species is rare and further to the east than I live. Wiltshire, southwest UK 17.4.10 nick upton attached the following image:  [105.53Kb] Nick Upton - naturalist and photographer |
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| nick upton |
Posted on 06-05-2010 12:11
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Member Location: Wiltshire, UK Posts: 828 Joined: 12.03.10 |
Another view of this water measurer on the water surface of a stream
nick upton attached the following image:  [117.33Kb] Nick Upton - naturalist and photographer |
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| atylotus |
Posted on 06-05-2010 12:29
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 Member Location: Amsterdam, NL Posts: 1166 Joined: 29.05.09 |
Dear Nick I think you're right. I even think that I can see the teeth at the posterior edge of the sternites 6 and 7 which makes it a male H. stagnorum. Besides this, the specimen is not as reddish brown as I'm used to see in H. gracilenta, but more blackish brown as in H. stagnorum. |
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| nick upton |
Posted on 06-05-2010 13:25
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Member Location: Wiltshire, UK Posts: 828 Joined: 12.03.10 |
OK, many thanks for this helpful feedback.
Nick Upton - naturalist and photographer |
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