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Bites Caused by Giant Water Bugs Belonging to Belostomatidae Family (Hemiptera, Heteroptera) in Humans: A Report of Seven Cases [PDF]

open access: yesWilderness and Environmental Medicine, 2010
We report 7 cases of patients bitten by giant water bugs, large predatory insects belonging to the Belostomatidae family (Hemiptera, Heteroptera). These insects have toxic saliva capable of provoking intense pain and paralysis in vertebrates.
Vidal Haddad   +2 more
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First record of the genus Lethocerus Mayr, 1853, from the Lower Miocene of the Most Formation in northern Bohemia, Czech Republic (Heteroptera, Belostomatidae) [PDF]

open access: yesBulletin De La Société Entomologique De France, 2000
The fossil hemelytra and legs of Lethocerus sp. (Heteroptera : Belostomatidae) are described from a Lower Miocene locality in northern part of the Czech Republic (Brown coalmine Bilina).
André Nel
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Distributional Patterns of Chacoan Water Bugs (Heteroptera: Belostomatidae, Corixidae, Micronectidae and Gerridae) [PDF]

open access: yesHydrobiologia, 2004
Distributional patterns of South American species of aquatic and semiaquatic Heteroptera from the Chaco biogeographic province were analyzed. Based on a track analysis of 60 species of Belostomatidae, Corixidae, Micronectidae, and Gerridae, five ...
Juan Morrone, Morrone Juan J
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Family Belostomatidae

2004
Nils M Andersen, Tom A Weir
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Revision of the Belostoma triangulum group (Insecta: Heteroptera: Belostomatidae)

Zootaxa, 2021
The genus Belostoma comprises about 70 species classified in sixteen species groups. Here, the remarkable Belostoma triangulum group sensu Lauck, 1964, is revised. Belostoma bicavum Lauck, 1964 is proposed as a junior synonym of B. bachmanni De Carlo, 1957, which is added to this group.
FABIANO STEFANELLO   +2 more
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The Higher Classification of the Belostomatidae (Hemiptera)

Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 1961
The seven genera recognized in the Belostomatidae pertain to three new subfamilies: LETHOCERINAE, with the one genus Lethocerus; HORVATHINIINAE , with the single genus Horvathinia ; and BELOSTOMATINAE, with the five genera Limnogeton, Hydrocyrius (= Poissonia , = Diplonychus auctt.
David R. Lauck, Arnold S. Menke
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Metasternal scent glands in Belostomatidae (Heteroptera)

Physiological Entomology, 1971
SYNOPSIS The distribution of metasternal scent glands in two subfamilies of Belostomatidae is discussed.
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Family Belostomatidae Leach, 1815

1989
John T. Polhemus   +2 more
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The Locomotion of Lethocerus (Hemiptera, Belostomatidae)

Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 1959
The external and internal skeleton and the musculature of the pterothorax of Lethocerus are described and figured. Studies of these structures revealed that the front and hind wings possess definite mechanisms for eoaptation, and that torsion of the wings is regulated by modified external sclerites rather than by the musculature of the basalare and ...
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The biology of Sphaerodema urinator Duf. (Hemiptera, Belostomatidae)

Zeitschrift für Angewandte Entomologie, 1978
AbstractSphaerodema urinator Duf. inhabits water ponds and rice fields in Egypt where it feeds on soft‐bodied animals that haunt these habitats, especially mosquito larvae and pupae. The seasonal cycle of S. urinator is passed by three annual generations, and consists of an active period (May—November) and a sexual quiescent period (November—May).Eggs ...
M. F. S. Tawfik   +2 more
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