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  1. Life
  2. Animals
  3. Arthropods
  4. Insects
  5. True Bugs, Hoppers, Aphids, and Allies
  6. Nepoidea
  7. Giant Water Bugs

family

Giant Water Bugs

Belostomatidae

Includes
16 native 2 present
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Children

  • Belostomatinae 12 native
  • Lethocerinae 4 native

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Most observed native giant water bugs All

Native to the US, by observations.

  • American Giant Water Bug Lethocerus americanus 8,754 observations
  • Uhler's Giant Water Bug Lethocerus uhleri 2,641 observations
  • Eastern Toe-biter Benacus griseus 1,824 observations
  • Belostoma flumineum 1,479 observations
  • Belostoma lutarium 575 observations
  • Belostoma testaceum 51 observations
  • Abedus immaculatus 16 observations

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