Definition of Family belostomatidae

1. Noun. Water bugs.

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

Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Belostomatidae

family Bacillaceae
family Bacteroidaceae
family Balaenicipitidae
family Balaenidae
family Balaenopteridae
family Balanidae
family Balistidae
family Balsaminaceae
family Bangiaceae
family Bathyergidae
family Batidaceae
family Batrachoididae
family Begoniaceae
family Belemnitidae
family Belonidae
family Belostomatidae
family Bennettitaceae
family Berberidaceae
family Betulaceae
family Bible
family Bignoniaceae
family Bittacidae
family Blastodiaceae
family Blattidae
family Blechnaceae
family Blenniidae
family Boidae
family Boletaceae
family Bombacaceae
family Bombycidae

Literary usage of Family belostomatidae

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Fresh-water Biology by Henry Baldwin Ward, George Chandler Whipple (1918)
"... caudal appendages short, strap-shaped, retractile; middle and hind legs flattened, fitted for swimming; tarsi two-jointed. . . . Family BELOSTOMATIDAE . ..."

2. The Insect Book: A Popular Account of the Bees, Wasps, Ants, Grasshoppers by Leland Ossian Howard (1905)
"... GIANT |VATER BUGS (family belostomatidae.) The remarkable insects of this family have long attracted attention. They include the largest of living bugs, ..."

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