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- De Carlo, J.A. 1968. Redescripción y aparato genital masculino de Austronepa angusta (Hale) (Heteroptera: Ranatridae). Physis (Buenos Aires) 27(75): 343-347
- De Carlo, J.A. 1968. Redescription and genital apparatus of the male of Austronepa angusta (Hale) (Hemiptera: Ranatridae). Physis (Buenos Aires) 27(75): 343-347
- De Carlo, J.A. 1968. The female genital apparatus of Ranatra (Hemiptera: Ranatridae). Physis (Buenos Aires) 28: 199-201
- Distant, W.L. 1906. The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Rhynchota (Heteroptera—Homoptera). London : Taylor & Francis Vol. 3 xiv 503 pp.
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- Dufour, L. 1863. Essai monographique sur les Bélostomides. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 4 3: 373-400
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- Froeschner, R.C. 1981. Heteroptera or true bugs of Ecuador: a partial catalog. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 1981(322): iv 1-147
- Gistel, J. 1847. [Descriptions]. p. 191 in Gistel, J. & Bromme, J. & F. (eds). Handbuch der Nasturgeschichte, aller drei Reiche, für Lehrer and Lernende, für Schule und Haus. Stuttgart : Hoffmann.
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- Kanyukova, E.V. & Kerzhner, I.M. 1980. [On the synonymy and distribution of Lethocerus Mayr (Heteroptera: Belostomatidae) in the Old World.]. Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie (English translation as Entomological Reviews) 59: 597-599 [In Russian with English summary, translation in Entomol. Rev. 59: 75–77]
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- Kirkaldy, G.W. 1903. Current notes.—No. 2. The Entomologist 36(487): 310-315
- Kirkaldy, G.W. & Torre Bueno, J.R. de la 1908. A catalogue of American aquatic and semi-aquatic Hemiptera. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 10: 173-215
- Lansbury, I. 1967. Aquatic Hemiptera-Heteroptera of the Noona Dan expedition to the Philippine and Bismarck Islands. Entomologiske Meddelelser 35: 89-98
- Lansbury, I. 1967. Comparative morphology of the male Australian Nepidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera). Australian Journal of Zoology 15: 641-649
- Lansbury, I. 1972. A review of the Oriental species of Ranatra Fabricius (Hemiptera-Heteroptera: Nepidae). Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 124: 287-341
- Lansbury, I. 1972. A revision of the genus Telmatotrephes Stål (Hemiptera-Heteroptera, Nepidae). Zoologica Scripta 1: 271-286
- Lansbury, I. 1973. Montonepa gen.n. from India with notes on the genus Borborophyes Stål (Hemiptera-Heteroptera, Nepidae). Zoologica Scripta 2: 111-118
- Lansbury, I. 1973. A review of the genus Cercotmetus Amyot & Serville, 1843 (Hemiptera-Heteroptera: Nepidae). Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 116: 83-106
- Lansbury, I. 1974. A new genus of Nepidae from Australia with a revised classification of the family (Hemiptera: Heteroptera). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 13: 219-227
- Lansbury, I. 1974. Notes on Ranatra (Amphischizops) compressicollis Montandon with a review of its systematic position within the American Ranatra (Hemiptera-Heteroptera, Nepidae). Zoologica Scripta 3: 23-30
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