Yellow Backswimmer: S4, dorsal

Class:

Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta)

Order:

True Bugs (Hemiptera)

Family:

Backswimmer (Nepomorpha: Notonectidae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Yellow Backswimmer (Anisops sp)

This Photo:

🔍S4, dorsal🔎

Thank you Dr Matthew Pintar for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA), the Riverland and elsewhere
~7mm long. Mainly yellow with orange patch on top and black stripes underneath (which is what would normally be seen from above).
We thought these might be Anisops planifascies, but Matthew said "it seems unlikely to be a larger species not known from this area"
A quantity (~10 or so) came to a night light in February.

This species is

Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.

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