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foretarsi: (28) Belostoma bifoveolatum, (29) Lethocerus patruelis, (30) Lethocerus cordo fanus, (31) Appasus urinator urinator, (32) Hydrocyrius colombiae colombiae, (33) Limno geton fieberi.
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An updated and annotated check-list of Israeli giant water bugs (Belostomatidae) is provided. the recorded species belong in the subfamilies Belostomatinae and lethocerinae. the following six species occur in the country: Appasus urinator urinator, Limnogeton fieberi, Lethocerus patruelis, Lethocerus cordofanus (new record), Hydrocyrius colombiae c...
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... The southernmost locality where it has been recorded in Pretoria of South Africa. In the north, L. cordofanus reaches the Mediterranean through the Nile river basin (Perez Goodwyn 2006) and it has also been recorded in Israel (Novoselsky et al. 2018). ...
... The collected specimens were identified by examining the foretarsus, the prosternal keel and the genital plate based on the works of Perez Goodwyn (2006) and Novoselsky et al. (2018). Diagnostic morphological characteristics of the examined specimens are shown in Figure 3. ...
Citizen science has gradually become an important source of data for science. In the present work, we further corroborate this notion by confirming the presence of the Giant water bug, Lethocerus patruelis on the island of Cyprus, based on citizen findings. Our records rely almost entirely on information initially provided through social networks by biodiversity-enthusiast users. We investigate the likely origin of L. patruelis in Cyprus and discuss the possibility of an established population of the species on the island. We also outline some initial thoughts on the environmental impact of a possible future establishment on the islands’ water bodies.
... The localities and date of collection were recorded. The specimens were classified and identified to orders, families, genera and species by using different classification keys such as: Coe et al. (1950); Cranston and Judd (1989); Askew (2004); Nieser (2004); Dijkstra and Lewington (2006) ;Kalkman, (2006); Madden (2010); Kumar (2012); Perveen et al. (2014);Al-Hashmi et al. (2018);Novoselsky et al. (2018) and Alhejoj et al. (2020). ...
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This study included a survey and review of the scientific names of the marsh insects (aquatic and surrounding it) for the purpose of unifying and updating the database. The survey reveals 109 species under 77 genera that belong to 32 families and 7 orders as follow: Coleoptera (44 species), Diptera (7 species) Ephemeroptera (2 species), Hemiptera (14 species), Hymenoptera (11 species), Lepidoptera (2 species) and Odonata with 29 species. Information of specimens' collection for each species, synonyms and geographical distribution were provided.
... They are found worldwide. Belostoma, with approximately 60 extant species, is the most speciose genus within the subfamily, being naturally distributed in the Americas and introduced in Israel (Novoselsky et al., 2018). Concerning the immatures, there are several studies on the living species of the Belostomatidae (e.g., Schnack, 1971, Smith, 1997, and Ohba & Tatsuta, 2015. ...
Neponymphes godoii Zamboni, 2001 is redescribed and illustrated based on specimens from the Lower Cretaceous of Northeastern Brazil (Araripe Basin, Crato Formation; upper Aptian, ~114 Ma). The redescription, based both on the adult and nymphal stages, shows that the external morphological characters of N. godoii were fairly similar to those of recent members of the Belostomatini. Hence, the external morphology in this tribe has apparently not changed much since the Cretaceous.
... A very similar species is L. cordofanus Mayr, 1853, and can be separated by morphological characters that are hard to see in most photographs. However, this species is distributed primarily in central tropical Africa (Polhemus 1995), (with southernmost record in South Africa) reaching the Middle-East through the Nile River basin, with the northernmost record being in Israel (Novoselsky et al. 2018). We therefore doubt that any of the records presented here could represent this species; however further research is needed to exclude this possibility. ...
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... Body features and color of the specimen agreed with Perez Goodwyn (2006), Cianferoni & Nardi (2013) and Novoselsky et al. (2018). The specimen was identified as a female, based on the shape of the genital segment with two protuberances at the end, no hairs evident externally and position of spiracles VII being more distally placed relative to the tip of the genital operculum (Perez Goodwyn 2006;Nesemann & Sharma 2013;Basu et al. 2018) (Fig. 2). ...
... mm reported for maximum body length of females by Nesemann & Sharma (2013), but lower than the range of 78.1-83.4 mm reported for females total length by Novoselsky et al. (2018). Body length, measured from the anteclypeus to the posterior end of the abdomen, was 71.3 mm (Fig. 1A) (Stål, 1855), ♀, preserved in ethanol. ...
The finding in 2017 of a female of Lethocerus patruelis, a species rarely collected in the Aegean Islands, is documented from Rhodes (Greece), more than 160 years after its first record in the same island. The general distribution of the giant water bug and its occurrence in the area are briefly discussed.Keywords: Belostomatidae, giant water bug, Lethocerus patruelis, Aegean Sea, Rhodes, Greece
... The diagnostic characters used in the present study to differentiate between the Lethocerinae species of Asia ( Fig. 1-A-1C, 1F-1K) were adopted from previous taxonomic studies (Perez Goodwyn 2006;Novoselsky et al. 2018) and can be used to identify species in the field, even by the naked eye. Even though the diagnostic characters presented here allow (Hazarika & Goswami 2010;Devi et al. 2016;Sheikh et al. 2017), even though that feature is characteristic of L. patruelis, and some studies of Lethocerus in northern India (i.e., Assam, Jabalpur, and Manipur) have only described L. indicus, even though both L. indicus and L. patruelis are distributed in the region. ...
