Lethocerus colossicus (Stål, 1854), Stal, 1854

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 : 14

Lethocerus colossicus (Stål, 1854)

Geographical distribution: endemic to the Neotropical region, occurring from Mexico to Panama.

Material from Cuba: Santiago de Cuba, XI.1932, P. J. Bermudez leg., no specimen number (KU). La Habana, Central San Antonio, Madruga, 8.VI.1932, P. J. Bermudez leg., no specimen number (KU) ( Cummings 1933). Granma, Rio Bayamo, Guisa, 19.VI.2004, P. Mateo leg., 2 specimens ( NHMC); 22.I.2005, P. Mateo leg., 1 specimen ( NHMC) ( Mateo 2005). La Habana, no date or collector, 1 ɗ 1 Ψ ( NHMW) (Perez- Goodwyn 2006).

Habitat: not as common in Cuba as L. medius ( Guérin-Méneville, 1857) , but sometimes collected at light together with representatives of the last species.