Ambrysus mormon, the creeping water bug, is a species of creeping water bug in the family Naucoridae. It is found in the western United States and northwestern Mexico.[1][2][3]
Ambrysus mormon | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hemiptera |
Suborder: | Heteroptera |
Family: | Naucoridae |
Genus: | Ambrysus |
Species: | A. mormon
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Binomial name | |
Ambrysus mormon Montandon, 1909
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Synonyms[1] | |
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Subspecies
editThere were formerly three subspecies of Ambrysus mormon but they were synonymized by Reynoso-Velasco and Sites:[4]
- Ambrysus mormon heidemanni Montandon, 1910
- Ambrysus mormon minor La Rivers, 1963
- Ambrysus mormon mormon Montandon, 1909
References
edit- ^ a b "Ambrysus mormon Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
- ^ "Ambrysus mormon". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
- ^ "Ambrysus mormon species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
- ^ Reynoso-Velasco, Daniel; Sites, Robert W. (2016). "Revision of the Ambrysus guttatipennis Stål species complex (Heteroptera: Naucoridae: Cryphocricinae) with the descriptions of six new species from Mexico". Zootaxa. 4154 (3): 201–250. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4154.3.1. PMID 27615837.