Lethocerus Mayr 1853 (giant water bug)
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Insecta - Hemiptera - Belostomatidae
Synonym: Paranoika Zamboni et al. 2002
Parent taxon: Lethocerinae according to D. A. Moura-Júnior et al. 2021
See also Miller 1983, Nel and Paicheler 1992, Nel and Waller 2006, Ribeiro et al. 2018 and Říha and Kukalová 1967
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Lethocerus americanus Lethocerus placidus Lethocerus sulcifemoralis Lethocerus turgaicus
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Quaternary of United States (1: California collection)
• Miocene of the Russian Federation (1)
• Oligocene of Czechia (1)
• Eocene of the United Kingdom (1)
• Cretaceous of Brazil (3)
Total: 7 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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