Desert-kidneywood

Guides

• Lycostomus loripes

  Lycostomus loripes is a species of giant water bug in the family Belostomatidae. The species has been documented in the Atascosa Mountains of Arizona, where adults were observed on flowers of Eysenhardtia orthocarpa (desert kidneywood). As a member of Belostomatidae, it is an aquatic predator, though specific ecological details for this species remain limited in published sources.

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