Kwik-Key to Common Families of Heteroptera

Select "YES" or "NO" for your specimen:

Are the front legs much shorter than the middle and hind legs? Is there a tuft of hydrophobic hairs at the tip of each tarsus?

YES: Family Gerridae

NO: Family Reduviidae

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