Lethocerus turgaicus 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

Belongs to Lethocerus according to A. Nel and J. C. Paicheler 1992

See also Popov 1971

Sister taxa: Lethocerus americanus, Lethocerus placidus, Lethocerus sulcifemoralis

Type specimen: PIN 1096/9, a thorax. Its type locality is Abrosimovka river at Ekaterinoslav (PIN collection 1096), which is in an Aquitanian/Burdigalian terrestrial siliciclastic in the Abrosimovka Formation of the Russian Federation.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Abrosimovka river at Ekaterinoslav (PIN collection 1096)

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