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Definition of Belostomatidae
1. Noun. Water bugs.
Generic synonyms: Arthropod Family
Group relationships: Heteroptera, Suborder Heteroptera
Member holonyms: Giant Water Bug
Lexicographical Neighbors of Belostomatidae
Literary usage of Belostomatidae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Catalogue of the Hemiptera of American North of Mexico: Excepting the by Edward Payson Van Duzee (1917)
"34, 1906, Belostomatidae. Kirkaldy, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc., xxxii, p. 151, 1906,
Belostomatidae. Kirkaldy and Bueno, Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., x, p. ..."
2. The Insect Book: A Popular Account of the Bees, Wasps, Ants, Grasshoppers by Leland Ossian Howard (1905)
"... dilatatus (Belostomatidae) Western States п. ... anura (with eggs), (Belostomatidae)
Southern States 36. Benacus griseus, with eggs of water mite ..."
3. Fresh-water Biology by Henry Baldwin Ward, George Chandler Whipple (1918)
"The Nepidae and Belostomatidae are fairly adapted forms that do not depart far
or long from the surface of the water, and only the Corixidae and ..."
4. Journal of the New York Entomological Society by New York Entomological Society (1913)
"The Belostomatidae include some of the largest hemiptera known. The second and
third pairs of legs are broad and paddle like and fringed with long hairs. ..."
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