Belostoma ellipticum Latreille, 1833

Riviaux, Senén Muñoz, Moreira, Felipe Ferraz Figueiredo & López, Carlos Naranjo, 2010, Checklist, distribution, and habitat of the semiaquatic and aquatic bugs from Cuba (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Dipsocoromorpha, Leptopodomorpha, Gerromorpha and Nepomorpha), Zootaxa 2562, pp. 1-23 : 13

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.197138
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6207773
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/77108177-FF86-FF86-ACEF-FA8FFD9ABE10
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Belostoma ellipticum Latreille, 1833
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Geographical distribution: eastern Texas, United States, in the Nearctic region to Honduras in the Neotropical region.

Comments: reported from Cuba as Zaitha anurum by Champion (1901). The Z. anurum of Champion is nowadays interpreted as a mixture of species, and the Cuban material originally reported by him probably corresponds to B. ellipticum . Belostoma ellipticum itself is also a problematic species taxonomically and may eventually become a nomen dubium.