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LIFE-HISTORIES OF NORTH-AMERICAN WATER-BUGS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

J. R. De La Torre Bueno
Affiliation:
New York.

Extract

At every turn, since beginning my studies in the aquatic Hemiptera some four years ago, my attempts to verify some observation have been balked by the extreme meagreness of the information on the subject running all through the field of entomological literature. This lack is far more noticeable with reard to the immature stages of the Cryptocerata and of the aquatic and semi-aquatic forms of the Gymnocerata.

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Copyright
Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1906

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References

1. Standard Natural History, Insects, p. 258.

2. Léon Dufour, Essai Mongraphique sur les Belostomides, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 186, Vol. III, p. 378. Dimmock, Belostomidæ and other Fish-destroying Bugs, Ann. Rep. Fish and Game Comm., Mass., 1886, p. 71. Comstock, Introduction to the Study of Insects, 1888, p. 189; Manual for the Study of Insects 1899, p. 131; Insect Life, 1899, p. 133.

3. Cambridge Natural History, Insects, Part II, p. 566.

4. American Naturalist, 1899, pp. 931 933.

5. Dimmock says (l. c.) about 175.

6. March 21st, in one instance.

7. Dofour in Mém. Soc. Ac. Sci. Liege, 186, p. 197, expresses the guarded opinion that the strap-like appendages of Belostoma (=Amorgius) indicum are respiratory in their function.

8. Cambridge Natural History, Insects, Part II, p. 567.

9. Handbuch, Vol. II, p. 195.

10. Cf. Bueno, Journal New York Entomological Society, Vol. XI, p. 168.

11. Dofour (Essai Monographique sur les Belostomides) notes that all larvæ of Belostomids have uniarticulate tarsi.