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Velvet Water Bugs
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Velvet Water Bugs

Hebridae

Velvet water bugs are members of the family Hebridae. They are semiaquatic insects that live among moss or ponds with an abundance of vegetation, in which they prey on small arthropods. Velvet water bugs are the smallest of the Gerromorpha, and have an appearance of tiny veliids. Hebrids sometimes move across water surfaces, but walk or run rather than skate or scull on the surface.

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5 branches of this family, most-observed first

Hebrus

genusHebrus

Merragata

genusMerragata

Timasius

genusTimasius

Black Velvet Water Bugs

genusHebrometra

Lipogomphus

genusLipogomphus

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 178192.