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For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada

Species Abedus immaculatus


A taxonomic study of the genus Abedus Stål (Hemiptera, Belostomatidae)
By Menke A.S.
UC Publ. Entomol. 16: 393‒439, 1960

Three aquatic true bugs (Hem.: Heteroptera) newly reported in Illinois, with keys to Hesperocorixa (Corixidae) and Notonectidae
By Swanson D.R., Bilger E.E.
Ent. News 130: 1‒18, 2021
Full title: Three aquatic true bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) newly reported in Illinois, with keys to Hesperocorixa (Corixidae) and Notonectidae of Illinois
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Phylogeny of the true water bugs (Nepomorpha: Hemiptera–Heteroptera) based on 16S and 28S rDNA and morphology
By M.B. Hebsgaard, N.M. Andersen, & J. Damgaard
Systematic Entomology 29: 488-508, 2004

A synopsis of the Hemiptera-Heteroptera of America north of Mexico
By Torre-Bueno J.R. de la
Entomol. Amer. 19: 141‒304 & 21: 41‒122, 1939
Full text (parts of v.19‒20 & v.21‒22)

True Bugs (Heteroptera) of the Neotropics
By Panizzi A.R., Grazia J., eds.
Springer. xxii+901 pp., 2015

True bugs of the world (Hemiptera, Heteroptera): classification and natural history
By Schuh R.T., Weirauch C.
Siri Scientific Press, Manchester. 800 pp., 2020

New state and provincial records for some nearctic true bugs (Hem.:Heteroptera) from the Ill. Nat.Hist. Survey Insect Collection
By Swanson D.R.
Great Lakes Entomol. 54: 104‒142, 2021

New United States records for five Heteroptera (Berytidae, Cydnidae, Miridae) from Arizona and New Mexico
By Henry, T. J. and J. T. Botz
Entomological Society of Washington, 2023
PROC. ENTOMOL. SOC. WASH.
124(4), 2022, pp. 784–794

Abstract.—Five Heteroptera from Arizona/New Mexico are reported new to the
United States: Pronotacantha armata Štusák [Berytidae], Tominotus hogenhoferi
(Signoret) [Cydnidae], and Calocorisca tenera Distant, Fulvius atratus Distant, and
Macrolophus saileri Carvalho [Miridae]. Reviews of the pertinent literature, distribution
records, and known host information are provided and color habitus images
and diagnoses of each species are presented to facilitate identification.