Subfamily Lethocerinae Lauck and Menke 1961 (giant water bug)

Insecta - Hemiptera - Belostomatidae

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

See also Nel and Paicheler 1992, Nel and Waller 2006, Popov 1971, Popov 1992 and Ribeiro et al. 2018

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

Subtaxa: Lethocerus

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Type: Lethocerus

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Quaternary of United States (1: California collection)

• Miocene of the Russian Federation (1)

• Oligocene of the Czech Republic (1)

• Eocene of the United Kingdom (1)

• Cretaceous of Brazil (3)

Total: 7 collections each including a single occurrence

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