Definition of Belostomatidae

1. Noun. Water bugs.

Exact synonyms: Family Belostomatidae
Generic synonyms: Arthropod Family
Group relationships: Heteroptera, Suborder Heteroptera
Member holonyms: Giant Water Bug

Lexicographical Neighbors of Belostomatidae

Bellis
Bellis perennis
Bellman-Ford algorithm
Belloc
Bellona
Bells
Belluno
Belmont
Belmont Park
Belmont Stakes
Belmopan
Belo Horizonte
Belonidae
Belorussia
Belorussian
Belostomatidae (current term)
Belsen
Belsey Mark IV operation
Belsey Mark IV procedure
Belsey Mark V procedure
Belshazzar
Beltane
Beltian body
Beltway
Beltway bandit
Beltway bandits
Beluga
Belugas
Belvoir
Belvoir Hunt

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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