Full reference: P. A. Latreille. 1802. Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière des Crustacés et des Insectes, Tome Troisième 1-467
Parent taxon: Nepomorpha according to K. P. Johnson et al. 2018
See also Criscione and Grimaldi 2017, Nel and Paicheler 1992, Popov 1971, Popov 1996, Popov et al. 2000 and Szwedo 2018
Sister taxa: Corixoidea, Gelastocoroidea, Morrisonnepa, Naucoroidea, Notonectoidea, Ochteroidea, Pleoidea, Pterocimicidae
Subtaxa: Belostomatidae Cratonepa Laccotrephes incertus Nepidae
Type: Nepa
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Quaternary of United States (2: California collections)
• Miocene of China (5), France (1), Germany (2), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (2), Turkey (1)
• Oligocene of the Czech Republic (1), France (1), Germany (1)
• Eocene of France (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (1: Colorado)
• Paleocene of Canada (1: Alberta)
• Cretaceous of Brazil (9), China (1), Mexico (1), Mongolia (1), Spain (2), the United Kingdom (2)
• Jurassic of Germany (10), Poland (1), the United Kingdom (2), United States (1: New Mexico)
• Triassic of United States (1: North Carolina)
Total: 52 collections including 73 occurrences