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family

toe biters
Belostomatidae Leach, 1815

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Arthropoda - arthropods »  class Insecta - insects »  order Hemiptera - bugs »  superfamily Nepoidea

Other names

= Giant water bugs

Temporal range:Jurassic > Middle Jurassic > Callovian – recent
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Included taxa

Number of records: 10

subfamily Belostomatinae Leach, 1815
subfamily Horvathiniinae Lauck & Menke, 1961
subfamily Lethocerinae Lauck & Menke, 1961
Tertiary: Rupelian – recent

Fossil taxa

subfamily Stygeonepinae Popov, 1971
genus Aenictobelostoma Polhemus, 2000
Jurassic: Callovian
genus Belostomates Schöberlin, 1888
genus Lethopterus Popov, 1989
genus Manocerus Zhang, 1989
genus Scarabaeides Germar, 1839
Jurassic: Tithonian
genus Triassonepa Criscione & Grimaldi, 2017

Links and literature

EN The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera [104427]

Rees, T. (compiler): The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera [https://www.irmng.org] [as Belostomatidae Leach, 1815]
Data retrieved on: 30 November 2019

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Explanations

extinct taxon