marsh treaders

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• marsh treader — ▪ insect also called  water measurer        any insect of the family Hydrometridae (order Heteroptera), so named because of its slow, deliberate manner of moving as it walks along the surface of a pond or crawls among shore vegetation. Marsh… …   Universalium

• heteropteran — ▪ insect order Introduction   any member of the insect order Heteroptera, which comprises the so called true bugs. (Some authorities use the name Hemiptera; others consider both the heteropterans and the homopterans to be suborders of the… …   Universalium

• Hydrometridae — Hydrometra stagnorum Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia …   Wikipedia