†subfamily Stygeonepinae Popov 1971 (giant water bug)

Insecta - Hemiptera - Belostomatidae

Full reference: Y. A. Popov. 1971. Historical development of the infraorder Nepomorpha (Heteroptera). Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 129:1-228

Parent taxon: Belostomatidae according to J. R. I. Ribeiro et al. 2018

See also Martínez-Delclòs et al. 1995, Nel and Paicheler 1992 and Popov 1971

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

Subtaxa: Iberonepa Stygeonepa

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Ecology:

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Spain (2 collections), the United Kingdom (2)

• Jurassic of Germany (2)

Total: 6 collections each including a single occurrence

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