| 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 |
| Binomial name | |
| Ambrysus mormon Montandon, 1909 | |
| Synonyms [1] | |
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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]
There were formerly three subspecies of Ambrysus mormon but they were synonymized by Reynoso-Velasco and Sites: [4]
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Angus Munn Woodbury was an American zoologist and ecologist from Utah. He was professor at the University of Utah for over 20 years, and also worked for many years as a ranger-naturalist at Zion National Park. He produced over 100 publications, many focused on the biology of reptiles and birds, but also on insects, ecological succession, and the history of Utah. He and his wife of 55 years, Grace Atkin Woodbury, died in an automobile collision on August 1, 1964, near Loveland, Colorado.
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