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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » True Bugs (Heteroptera) » Aquatic Bugs (Nepomorpha) » Nepoidea » Giant Water Bugs (Belostomatidae) » Belostomatinae » Belostoma » Belostoma flumineum
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Giant Water Bug - Belostoma flumineum
Copyright © 2007 Yvonne1313

Giant Water Bug - Belostoma flumineum
Barrie, Ontario, Canada
August 29, 2007
Size: 1 inch
It was just shy of an inch long. I found it in my pool.

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Giant Water Bug - Belostoma flumineum Giant Water Bug - Belostoma flumineum
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Contributed by Yvonne1313 on 31 August, 2007 - 8:57am
Last updated 2 February, 2010 - 8:31am

Moved tentatively -- apparently, the ony sp. ranging into ON
Moved from Belostoma.
… v belov, 2 February, 2010 - 8:31am login or register to post comments

Water true Bug (Heteroptera) - Belostoma sp.
Rather than their giant relatives Lethocerus, these bugs remind of Eurasian Naucoris and Aphelocheirus. Wings fully developped like in the first, Coackroach-like outline like in the second.
… Richard Vernier, 31 August, 2007 - 10:58am login or register to post comments

 
It is the same specimen in bo
It is the same specimen in both pictures... I had moved it from the table to get a better shot.
… Yvonne1313, 31 August, 2007 - 12:33pm login or register to post comments

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