Ranatra fabricii Guérin-Méneville, 1857

Riviaux, Senén Muñoz, Moreira, Felipe Ferraz Figueiredo & López, Carlos Naranjo, 2010, Checklist, distribution, and habitat of the semiaquatic and aquatic bugs from Cuba (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Dipsocoromorpha, Leptopodomorpha, Gerromorpha and Nepomorpha), Zootaxa 2562, pp. 1-23 : 18

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.197138
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6207814
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scientific name	Ranatra fabricii Guérin-Méneville, 1857
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Geographical distribution: endemic to Cuba.

Material from Cuba: La Habana, Santiago de Las Vegas, no date or collector, no specimen number ( USNM). Matanzas, no date or collector, no specimen number ( USNM) ( De Carlo 1964). Isla de la Juventud, Base “J. A. Mella”, 24.IV.1973, Cuban-Romanian Biospeological Expedition leg., 9 ɗ, 4 Ψ (SDH, SIB) ( Nieser 1977). Holguín, Río Mayarí, Ojo de Agua, 11.VI.2000, M. Aldana & L. Fonseca leg, 2 specimens ( NHMC); before Mayarí, 20.III.2001, M. Aldana & L. Fonseca leg., 1 specimen ( NHMC) ( Aldana and Fonseca 2001). Río Gibara , Cuatro Caminos, 6.II.2002, Hernández & Bauta leg, 2 specimens ( NHMC); 18.VI.2001, Hernández & Bauta leg., 12 specimens ( NHMC); La Palma, 10.II.2002, Hernández & Bauta leg., 67 specimens ( NHMC); San Fernando, 7.II.2002, Hernández & Bauta leg., 4 specimens ( NHMC); Cuevitas, 5.II.2002, Hernández & Bauta leg., 10 specimens ( NHMC); Río Cacoyugüín, El Pachi, 3.II.2003, Hernández & Bauta leg., 1 specimen ( NHMC) ( Hernández and Bauta 2003).

Habitat: very common species, found in ponds, lakes, and muddy rivers up to 200 m above the sea-level.