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Nepidae
We were at school and this strange insect appeared on the grass. It is an insect because it has 6 legs but the two front legs look sort of like some sort of pincers. It had two very big eyes which it sort of moved independently from the body and the body was quite big (around 4cm).
Spotted on Sep 5, 2014
Submitted on Sep 6, 2014
7 Comments
Ja, ja, thank you for the nice comment Anita! =D
It does seem to have something curled on its back...isn´t it? Maybe it is the tail that it curled; when the children called me they said that someone had been turning the poor bug upside down...maybe a future entomologist! =D
@Smith Zoo - I thought all Nepidans had a "tail", is that incorrect?
Some kind of water scorpion - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nepidae
Found it! Thank you very much Jen! It does look like this one:
http://www.google.com.uy/imgres?imgurl=h...
Thank you very much Jen! =D
This insect is a type of giant water bug! I don't what species are present in Uruguay but here is some general information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belostomati...