Belostoma ellipticum Latreille, 1833

Riviaux, Senén Muñoz, Moreira, Felipe Ferraz Figueiredo & López, Carlos Naranjo, 2010, Checklist, distribution, and habitat of the semiaquatic and aquatic bugs from Cuba (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Dipsocoromorpha, Leptopodomorpha, Gerromorpha and Nepomorpha), Zootaxa 2562, pp. 1-23 : 13

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.197138

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6207773

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scientific name

Belostoma ellipticum Latreille, 1833
status

 

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Geographical distribution: eastern Texas, United States, in the Nearctic region to Honduras in the Neotropical region.

Comments: reported from Cuba as Zaitha anurum by Champion (1901). The Z. anurum of Champion is nowadays interpreted as a mixture of species, and the Cuban material originally reported by him probably corresponds to B. ellipticum . Belostoma ellipticum itself is also a problematic species taxonomically and may eventually become a nomen dubium.

Champion, G. C. (1901) Hemiptera-Heteroptera. Biologia Centrali-Americana, Rhynchota 2: 1 - 416.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Belostomatidae

Genus

Belostoma