Ambrysus mormon

Ambrysus mormon
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
	Ambrysus mormon australis La Rivers, 1953 ; Ambrysus mormon heidemanni Montandon, 1910 ; Ambrysus mormon minor La Rivers, 1963 ;

Last updated October 11, 2023

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]

Subspecies

There were formerly three subspecies of Ambrysus mormon but they were synonymized by Reynoso-Velasco and Sites:^[4]

Ambrysus mormon heidemanniMontandon, 1910
Ambrysus mormon minorLa Rivers, 1963
Ambrysus mormon mormonMontandon, 1909

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References

1 2 "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.

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[itis-1] 1 2 "Ambrysus mormon Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-24.

[gbif-2] "Ambrysus mormon". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-24.

[buglink-3] "Ambrysus mormon species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-24.

[RVS-4] 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.

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