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Identification manual for the aquatic and semi-aquatic Heteroptera of Florida
By John H. Epler
FL Dept. of Environmental Protection, Tallahassee, FL. 186 pp., 2006
Full title: Identification Manual for the Aquatic and Semi-aquatic Heteroptera of Florida (Belostomatidae, Corixidae, Gelastocoridae, Gerridae, Hebridae, Hydrometridae, Mesoveliidae, Naucoridae, Nepidae, Notonectidae, Ochteridae, Pleidae, Saldidae, Veliidae)

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True Bugs of the World (Hemiptera:Heteroptera): Classification and Natural History
By Randall T. Schuh & James Alexander Slater. 1995.
Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York., 1995
Schuh, R.T. and J.A. Slater. 1995. True Bugs of the World (Hemiptera: Heteroptera). Classification and Natural History. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York. xii + 336 pp.

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Heteroptera of Economic Importance
By Carl W. Schaefer, and Antonio Ricardo Panizzi
CRC Press, 2000

Heteroptera of Eastern North America
By W.S. Blatchley
The Nature Publishing Company, 1926
Great resource for true bugs of Eastern North America, although sorely out of date.

The systematics of the Hemiptera
By Dimitri Forero
Revista Colombiana de Entomología 34 (1): 1-21, 2008
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Interesting and helpful review summarizing current advances and understanding or relationships between major lineages, and providing an up-to-date list of identification aids available online and otherwise.
Abstract: The Order Hemiptera comprises four main clades: Sternorrhyncha, Auchenorrhyncha, Coleorrhyncha and Heteroptera. In this article the main phylogenetic hypotheses for Hemiptera and its subgroups are reviewed. Important references regarding catalogs and identification aids are provided for the m

Catalogue of the Hemiptera of American North of Mexico: Excepting the Aphididae, Coccidae and Aleurodidae. Vol. 2.
By Van Duzee, E.P. 1917.
University of California Press, Berkeley., 1917
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Good source for distribution and literature info.

Van Duzee, E.P. 1917. Catalogue of the Hemiptera of American North of Mexico: Excepting the Aphididae, Coccidae and Aleurodidae. Vol. 2. University of California Press, Berkeley. i-xiv + 902 pp.

The Leafhoppers and Planthoppers
By L. R. Nault, J. G. Rodriguez
Wiley-Interscience, 1985

Insects of Algonquin Provincial Park
By Steve Marshall
Friends of Algonquin Park, 1997
This book is very cheap and useful for anybody living near to Algonquin Provincial Park. Although it is a short book its 8X11 size makes it difficult to take out into the field.

Steve Marshall nine year later hugely expanded the book to create his "Insects: Their Natural History And Diversity: With a Photographic Guide to Insects of Eastern North America"
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