Water Striders (Pond Skaters)

NEOPTERA - HEMIPTERA - HETEROPTERA - GERROMORPHA
This room displays photos of water striders or pond skaters.
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Gerris paludum [1], or Amembo <Gerridae>. photo: 06/2004, Niigata, Japan.	Unidentified Pond Skater. photo: 08/2004, Brownsberg, Suriname.	Gerris nepalensis, or Hanenashi Amembo <Gerridae>. photo: 05/2005, Tokyo, Japan.



Gerris latioabdominis, or Hime Amembo <Gerridae>. photo: 05/2005, Tokyo, Japan.	A Pond Skater, Metrocoris histrio, or Shima Amembo <Gerridae>. photo: 07/2005, Nagano, Japan.	Unidentified Pond Skater. photo: 08/2005, Rundu, Namibia.

Gerris paludum [2], or Amembo <Gerridae>. photo: 04/2006, Yamaguchi, Japan.

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exhibition rooms in this sector :

hymenoptera : sawflies | bees and digger wasps | ants | hornets | ichneumon wasps | other wasps
lepidoptera : inchworm moths || noctuid moths || hawk-moths || snout moths || other moths || swallowtails || whites || blues | riodinids || tigers & crows | palmflies & palm kings | morphos & evening browns | ringlets & treebrowns | Biblidinae | admirals & emperors | pansies & oak leaves | heliconiinae | sailers & gliders | other nymphalids || skippers || unidentified lepidopterans
diptera : true flies | mosquitoes and crane flies
coleoptera : ground beetles | scarabs | click beetles | lady beetles | leaf beetles | weevils | others
hemiptera : cicadas & leafhoppers || true bugs | water striders
orthoptera : crickets | grasshoppers
dictyoptera : praying mantis | cockroaches | termites
odonata : dragonflies | damselflies
other group : other insects

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