Hebrus pusillus is a true bug. The species is found in the Palearctic. It ranges from Europe and North Africa to Asia Minor, then east to Kirgizia. Hebrus pusillus is a tiny (2 mm long) semi-aquatic bug which lives in wet places, such as small lakes, heath and fen ponds, often at the shore amongst dense vegetation or in Lemna or Sphagnum. In Denmark, England, Germany and Sweden it is univoltine.[1]

Hebrus pusillus
Hebrus pusillus depicted in Edward Saunders Hemiptera Heteroptera of the British Islands (figure 6)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Heteroptera
Family: Hebridae
Genus: Hebrus
Species:
H. pusillus
Binomial name
Hebrus pusillus
(Fallén, 1807)

References

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  1. ^ Coulianos C. C., Økland J. and Økland K. A. 2008: Norwegian water bugs. Distribution and ecology (Hemiptera-Heteroptera: Gerromorpha and Nepomorpha). Norw. J. Ent. 55: 179-222.
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