| 词条 | Appasus |
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| image = Diplonychusjaponicus.jpg | image_caption=Male Appasus japonicus with eggs | regnum = Animalia | phylum = Arthropoda | classis = Insecta | ordo = Hemiptera | infraordo = Nepomorpha | familia = Belostomatidae | subfamilia = Belostomatinae | genus = Appasus | genus_authority = Amyot & Serville, 1843[1] | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = see text }}Appasus is a genus of giant water bugs (family Belostomatidae) found in freshwater habitats in Asia and Africa.[2] 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.[3] SpeciesPartial list of species: {{Incomplete list|date=April 2018}}
References1. ^Amyot & Serville (1843). (Roret's Suite à Buffon) Hémiptères: page 430. 2. ^{{cite book | editor=Capinera, J.L. |year=2008 | title=Encyclopedia of Entomology | publisher=Springer | page=1620 | edition=2 | isbn=978-1-4020-6242-1 }} 3. ^{{cite book |author=Robert L. Smith |date=1997 |chapter=Evolution of paternal care in the giant water bugs (Hemiptera: Belostomatidae) | editor=Jae C. Choe & Bernard J. Crespi |title=The Evolution of Social Behavior in Insects and Arachnids Sociality |pages=116–149 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-511-72195-3 |doi=10.1017/CBO9780511721953.007}} External links
2 : Belostomatidae|Nepomorpha genera |
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