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Asian Giant Water Bug

Lethocerus indicus

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Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist. — (c) agus_prayetno, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in India.

India	55
Thailand	35
China	24
Taiwan Province	17
Taiwan	17
Miaoli County	15
Tamil Nādu	13
Kerala	12
Indonesia	10
Andhra Pradesh	8

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Physical

ExoskeletonHas a hard external skeletonFrom its classification

Classification

Kingdom	Animals · Animalia
Phylum	Arthropods · Arthropoda
Class	Insects · Insecta
Order	True Bugs, Hoppers, Aphids, and allies · Hemiptera
Family	Giant Water Bugs · Belostomatidae
Genus	Lethocerus

Sources

Names, taxonomy and observation counts: www.inaturalist.org
Photos and recordings: the creator and source are on each one.
How much to rely on each source

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Practise Asian Giant Water Bug with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.

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