''Cercotmetus'' is a genus of water bugs in the subfamily Ranatrinae ("water stick-insects"). The recorded distribution of this genus is from is from mainland Asia to New Guinea and northern Australia.

Description

''Cercotmetus'' species are similar to the related genus ''

Ranatra ''Ranatra'' is a genus of slender predatory insects of the family Nepidae, known as Water mantis, water scorpions or water stick-insects. There are more than 140 ''Ranatra'' species found in freshwater habitats around the world, both in warm and ...

'', but have distinctly shorter respiratory siphons (posterior breathing tubes, which are ¼ or less of the body length) and the front

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is shorter than length of the

pronotum The prothorax is the foremost of the three segments in the thorax of an insect, and bears the first pair of legs. Its principal sclerites (exoskeletal plates) are the pronotum (dorsal), the prosternum (ventral), and the propleuron (lateral) on e ...

Species

The

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/ref> # '' Cercotmetus asiaticus'' Amyot & Serville, 1843 - type species # ''

Cercotmetus brevipes ''Cercotmetus'' is a genus of water Heteroptera, bugs in the subfamily Ranatrinae ("water stick-insects"). The recorded distribution of this genus is from is from mainland Asia to New Guinea and northern Australia. Description ''Cercotmetus'' ...

'' Montandon, 1909 # ''

Cercotmetus compositus ''Cercotmetus'' is a genus of water bugs in the subfamily Ranatrinae ("water stick-insects"). The recorded distribution of this genus is from is from mainland Asia to New Guinea and northern Australia. Description ''Cercotmetus'' species are ...

'' Montandon, 1903 # '' Cercotmetus dissidens'' Montandon, 1911 # '' Cercotmetus fumosus'' Distant, 1904 # '' Cercotmetus horni'' Montandon, 1911 # '' Cercotmetus minutus'' Keffer & J.Polhemus, 1999 # '' Cercotmetus pilipes'' (Dallas, 1850) # '' Cercotmetus robustus'' Montandon, 1911 # '' Cercotmetus strangulatus'' Montandon, 1911

References

External links

* {{taxonbar, from=Q21230783 Nepidae Nepomorpha genera Hemiptera of Asia