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| Male Appasus japonicus with eggs | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hemiptera |
| Suborder: | Heteroptera |
| Family: | Belostomatidae |
| Subfamily: | Belostomatinae |
| Genus: | Appasus Amyot and Serville, 18431 |
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Appasus (from Sanskrit: अप्, romanized: ap, lit. 'water' and Sanskrit: पशु, romanized: pashu, lit. 'beast; animal'2) is a genus of giant water bugs (family Belostomatidae) found in freshwater habitats in Asia and Africa.3
Giant water bugs exhibit male parental care. In Appasus and other species in the subfamily Belostomatinae (but not subfamily Lethocerinae), the female glues the eggs onto the male's back, and the male tends them until the eggs hatch.4
Species
Partial list of species:
- Appasus ampliatus (Montandon, 1914)
- Appasus capensis Mayr, 1871
- Appasus grassei (Poisson, 1937)
- Appasus japonicus (Vuillefroy, 1864)
- Appasus major (Esaki, 1934)
- Appasus quadrivittatus Bergroth, 1893
- Appasus stappersi (Montandon, 1916)
References
References
- Amyot & Serville (1843). (Roret's Suite à Buffon) Hémiptères: page 430.
- Amyot CJ-B, Audinet-Serville, JG (1843) Deuxième partie. Homoptères. Homoptera Latr. Histoire naturelle des Insectes. Hémiptères. Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret. Paris. i-lxxvi, 1-676.
- Capinera, J.L., ed. (2008). Encyclopedia of Entomology (2 ed.). Springer. p. 1620. ISBN 978-1-4020-6242-1.
- Robert L. Smith (1997). "Evolution of paternal care in the giant water bugs (Hemiptera: Belostomatidae)". In Jae C. Choe & Bernard J. Crespi (eds.). The Evolution of Social Behavior in Insects and Arachnids Sociality. Cambridge University Press. pp. 116–149. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511721953.007. ISBN 978-0-511-72195-3.