Rhagovelia oriander (scroll down). "Family Veliidae, of the Cryptocerata division of the Heteroptera. Wingless form.-very dark blackish brown, the appendages, and, in the male, the dorsal surface of the abdomen, shining, slightly metallic...."

This charming riffle bug was named by H. M. Parshley after Oriander, also called The Swimmer, Manuel's divine progenitor in Figures of Earth. From god to bug; Ra would sympathize.