DESCRIPTION OF DIGESTIVE SYSTEM OF MICRONECTA STRIATA, FIEB., THE INDIAN WATER BOATMEN

Abstract

The Hemiptera are insects that feed on plants and animals and can be found in both land and water. They can be small or big, oval or long, and sometimes flattened. Their bodies can change shape, and they have simple metamorphosis and sucking and piercing mouth parts. Their heads can be free and either prognathous or hypognathous, and their antennae can be two to ten or even twenty-five segments. Their eyes can be large, and they have ocelli or absence. Labium modifications can be simple or segmented rostrums, beaks or probosciss, palpi atrophied, and wings can be long or short, and ocelli can be present or absent. The common Indian water boatman belongs to a family of aquatic insects. In the present study an effort is made to explore bionomics of Micronecta striata Fieb. To introduce its habitat, habit, food, feeding and morphology. It is very common in ponds of rural area of India. Sound observations were made to ensure the validity of study. These insects are harmless, so that no special management to control them exists today.