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Field Notes

Habitat:

Side streams, slack waters, warm to hot places.

Notes:

Spotted these skimmers one afternoon at a side stream of the River Murty at Chalsa, Cooch Behar.

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (2)
Martijn van de Schoot
It's a species of Gerridae (Heteroptera). According to wikipedia there are over 1700 species of these skimmers. You'd probably need an identification key to identify it up to genus or species.

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PublishedNovember 6, 2013

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