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Curicta
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hemiptera
Suborder:	Heteroptera
Family:	Nepidae
Subfamily:	Nepinae
Genus:	Curicta Stål, 1861

Curicta is a genus of waterscorpions in the family Nepidae native to freshwater habitats in the Americas. There are more than 15 species, with most restricted to South America. There are only two species in the United States: C. pronotata (Arizona to Texas) and C. scorpio (Louisiana and Texas).

Species

There are more than 15 species in the genus Curicta, including:

• Curicta montei De Carlo, 1960
• Curicta pronotata Kuitert, 1949
• Curicta scorpio Stål, 1862

Data sources: i = ITIS, c = Catalogue of Life, g = GBIF, b = Bugguide.net

References

1. ^ Keffer, S.L. (1996). "Systematics of the New World Waterscorpion Genus Curicta Stål (Heteroptera: Nepidae)". Journal of the New York Entomological Society. 104 (3–4): 117–215.
2. ^ Heckman, C.W. (2011). Encyclopedia of South American Aquatic Insects: Hemiptera - Heteroptera. Springer. pp. 356–367. ISBN 978-94-007-0704-7.
3. "Curicta Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-05-05.
4. "Browse Curicta". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-05-05.
5. "Curicta". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-05-05.
6. "Curicta Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-05-05.

Further reading

• Sites, Robert W.; Polhemus, John T. (1994). "Nepidae (Hemiptera) of the United States and Canada". Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 87 (1): 27–42. doi:10.1093/aesa/87.1.27.
• Aukema, Berend; Rieger, Christian, eds. (1995). Catalogue of the Heteroptera of the Palaearctic Region, Vol. 1: Enicocephalomorpha, Dipsocoromorpha, Nepomorpha, Gerromorpha and Leptopodomorpha. The Netherlands Entomological Society. ISBN 978-90-71912-12-2.

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