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Subfamily Belostomatinae Leach 1815 (giant water bug)

Insecta - Hemiptera - Belostomatidae

Parent taxon: Belostomatidae according to D. A. Moura-Júnior et al. 2021

See also Nel and Paicheler 1992, Popov 1996, Popov et al. 1994, Popov et al. 2000, Ribeiro et al. 2018 and Zamboni 2001

Sister taxa: Aenictobelostoma, Belostoma goldfussi, Belostomates, Belostomates speciosum, Diplonychus rotundatus, Lethocerinae, Lethopterus, Libanobelostoma, Manocerus, Scarabaeides, Sphaerodema, Stygeonepinae, Triassonepa

Subtaxa: Araripebelostomum Belostomatini Diplonychini Lethonectes Mesonepa Nettelstedtia Odrowazicoris Propoissonia Sinobelostoma Tarsabedus

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Type: Belostoma

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Quaternary of United States (1: California collection)

• Miocene of Türkiye (1)

• Cretaceous of Brazil (4), China (1)

• Jurassic of Germany (8), Poland (1), the United Kingdom (2)

Total: 18 collections including 20 occurrences

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