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306 COLLEGE ENTOMOLOGY
The two remarkable North American species, Arctocorixa mercenaria (Say)
and A. abdominalis (Say), occur in such numbers in Mexico as to furnish eggs
for food for the natives, and the adults are captured in sufficient numbers to be
dried and exported by the ton as food for domestic poultry, song birds, and fish.
The former species ranges into New Mexico and California but does not occur
in excessive numbers outside of Mexico.
A. interrupta (Say) occurs throughout North America from Mexico to Canada
and from Maine to California. Small species of the genus Micronecta Kirkaldy
of Australia live in fresh-water sponges (Spong ilia) and are not abundant.
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1923.
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Compo Zool. Harvard College, Cambridge, pp. 140-159, figs. 250-291, references, 1932.
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