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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) » Ochteroidea » Toad Bugs (Gelastocoridae) » Gelastocoris » Big-Eyed Toad Bug (Gelastocoris oculatus)
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Toad Bug - Gelastocoris oculatus
Copyright © 2008 tom murray

Toad Bug - Gelastocoris oculatus
Kernville, Kern County, California, USA
June 29, 2008
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Contributed by tom murray on 12 July, 2008 - 1:44pm
Last updated 8 March, 2025 - 12:51pm

Moved
Moved from Gelastocoris.
… v belov, 25 April, 2010 - 10:48pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Toad Bugs. With the protruding eyes, this should be Gelastocoris:


Compare the only other North American genus, Nerthra:
… Cotinis, 11 March, 2009 - 7:55am login or register to post comments

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