Belostomatidae
- Giant Water Bugs or Electric Light Bugs
Five species
in three
genera are recorded from Michigan.
Species denoted in bold blue have been recorded from Michigan, based on literature records, examined museum specimens or personal collection. Species in normal font are likely to be found in Michigan, based on the species known range. Species denoted with " " are synonomized with species list directly above it.
Benacus Stål,
1861 (Subfamily Lethocerinae)
Benacus griseus (Say),
1832 Belostoma
Belostoma haldemanum Leidy,
1847
Belostoma harpax Stål,
1855
Belostoma angustatum Guérin,
1856
Belostoma distinctum Dufour,
1862
Belostoma Latreille
1807 (Subfamily Belostomatinae)
Belostoma
flumineum Say,
1832
Perthostoma
auranticum Leidy, 1847
Zaitha
fluminea Dufour, 1847
Zaitha
fusciventris Townsend, 1863
Belostoma
bakeri Ellis, 1952
Belostoma lutarium (Stål) 1855, Zaitha
Zaitha aurantiaca Uhler,
1886
Belostoma aurantiacum Torre-Bueno
and Brimley, 1907
Lethocerus Mayr,
1853
(Subfamily Lethocerinae)
Lethocerus (Lethocerus) americanus (Leidy), 1847 Belostoma
Belostoma
grandis var. americanum Leidy, 1847
Belostoma
impressum Haldeman, 1854
Belostoma
griseum Stål, 1861, and Mayr 1871
Belostoma
litigiosum Dufour, 1863
Belostoma
obscurum Dufour, 1863
Belostoma
americanum Snow, 1906
Benacus
griseum Howard, 1907
Lethocerus
obscurus Torre-Bueno, 1908
Lethocerus (Lethocerus) uhleri (Montandon), 1896 Belostoma
Amorgius (Montandonista) uhleri Torre-Bueno
and Brimley, 1907
Amorgius
uhleri Van Duzee, 1909
References
Perez Goodwyn PJ.
2006. Taxonomic revision of the subfamily Lethocerinae Lauck & Menke (Heteroptera: Belostomatidae). Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde Serie A (Biologie) 695:1-71.
Lauck
DR. 1964. A monograph of the genus Belostoma (Hemiptera).
Part III. B. Triangulum, bergi, minor, bifoveolatum and flumineum groups. The
Bulletin of the Chicago Academy of Sciences 11(5):102-154.
Menke AS. 1963. A review of the genus Lethocerus in North
and Central America, including the West Indies (Hemiptera: Belostomatidae). Annals
of the Entomological Society of America 56:261-267.
Polhemus
JT, Polhemus DA, Henry TJ. 1988. Family Belostomatidae Leach, 1815. The
Giant Water Bugs or Electric Light Bugs, pp. 47-55 in Henry TJ, Froeschner
RC. (eds.). 1988. Catalog of the Heteroptera, or True Bugs, of Canada and
the Continental United States. E. J. Brill: Leiden. 958
+ xix.
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October 31, 2002 - Last updated:
August 5, 2011
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