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Genus of true bugs

Horvathinia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Family: Belostomatidae
Subfamily: Horvathiniinae
Genus: Horvathinia
Montandon, 1911
Species

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Horvathinia is a small genus in the family Belostomatidae, and the only genus in its subfamily. Horvathinia are incredibly rare. In 2006, specimens were discovered in a wetland habitat.

Distribution

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Though it was originally thought to contain eleven species, upon recent reexamination, the number of species was reduced to two. Fewer than 100 specimens of the genus have been collected to date, and found only in a small part of South America in the border region of Brazil and Argentina.

It remains unknown what their habits are, where they can be found in the water (though there is some evidence that they may lurk in the muck at the bottom of ponds), what their position in the phylogeny of the water bugs is, or whether they brood their eggs as all other giant water bugs do. Some of these questions are currently being addressed by entomologists.

References

  1. Rodrigues, Claudia L.; Braga, Rafael B.; Moreira, Felipe F. F. (2020-03-11). "Rediscovery of the holotype of Horvathinia lenti De Carlo, 1958, new junior synonym of H. pelocoroides Montadon, 1911 (Insecta: Hemiptera: Belostomatidae)". Zootaxa. 4750 (2): zootaxa.4750.2.14. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4750.2.14. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 32230483.
  2. Lauck, David R. (1958). "A New Species of Horvathinia from Bolivia (Belostomatidae:Hemiptera)". Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society. 31 (3): 237–239. ISSN 0022-8567. JSTOR 25082304.
  3. Schnack, Juan A.; Estévez, Ana L.; de Reyes, A. Cristina Armúa (March 2006). "Laguna Don Blanco, Argentina: First Record of Horvathinia (Hemiptera: Belostomatidae) as a Wetland Dweller". Entomological News. 117 (2): 197–202. doi:10.3157/0013-872X(2006)117[197:LDBAFR]2.0.CO;2. ISSN 0013-872X.
Taxon identifiers
Horvathinia


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