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
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