Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Notonectidae Rank Species | Phylum Arthropoda Order Hemiptera Genus Notonecta | |
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Similar Notonecta, Notonecta maculata, Notonectidae, Nepomorpha, Notonecta glauca | ||
Notonecta irrorata is a species of backswimmer native to North America first described by Philip Reese Uhler in 1879. Presence of N. irrorata in ponds is known to repel the oviposition of Culex mosquitoes.
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