CercotmetusAmyot CJ-B, Serville JGA (1843) (Roret's Suites à Buffon): HémiptèresLansbury I (1973) A review of the genus Cercotmetus Amyot & Serville, 1843 (Hemiptera-Heteroptera: Nepidae). Tijdschrift voor Entomologie, 116 83-106. 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, but have distinctly shorter respiratory siphons (posterior breathing tubes, which are ¼ or less of the body length) and the front femur is shorter than length of the pronotum.
Species The Global Biodiversity Information Facility lists:Global Biodiversity Information Facility: Cercotmetus Amyot & Serville, 1843 (retrieved 13 January 2021) Cercotmetus asiaticus Amyot & Serville, 1843 - type species Cercotmetus brevipes Montandon, 1909 Cercotmetus compositus 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
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