Horvathinia

{{Short description|Genus of true bugs}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = | image_caption = | parent_authority = Lauck & Menke, 1961 | taxon = Horvathinia | authority = Montandon, 1911 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = See text }}

'''''Horvathinia''''' is a small genus in the family Belostomatidae, and the only genus in its subfamily.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Rodrigues |first1=Claudia L. |last2=Braga |first2=Rafael B. |last3=Moreira |first3=Felipe F. F. |date=2020-03-11 |title=Rediscovery of the holotype of Horvathinia lenti De Carlo, 1958, new junior synonym of H. pelocoroides Montadon, 1911 (Insecta: Hemiptera: Belostomatidae) |url=https://www.mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.4750.2.14 |journal=Zootaxa |volume=4750 |issue=2 |doi=10.11646/zootaxa.4750.2.14 |pmid=32230483 |issn=1175-5334|url-access=subscription }}</ref> ''Horvathinia'' are incredibly rare.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Lauck |first=David R. |date=1958 |title=A New Species of Horvathinia from Bolivia (Belostomatidae:Hemiptera) |journal=Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society |volume=31 |issue=3 |pages=237–239 |jstor=25082304 |issn=0022-8567}}</ref> In 2006, specimens were discovered in a wetland habitat.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Schnack |first1=Juan A. |last2=Estévez |first2=Ana L. |last3=de Reyes |first3=A. Cristina Armúa |date=March 2006 |title=Laguna Don Blanco, Argentina: First Record of Horvathinia (Hemiptera: Belostomatidae) as a Wetland Dweller |url=http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.3157/0013-872X%282006%29117%5B197%3ALDBAFR%5D2.0.CO%3B2 |journal=Entomological News |language=en |volume=117 |issue=2 |pages=197–202 |doi=10.3157/0013-872X(2006)117[197:LDBAFR]2.0.CO;2 |issn=0013-872X|url-access=subscription }}</ref>

== Distribution == {{Original research|section|date=November 2024|reason=}} Though it was originally thought to contain eleven species, upon recent reexamination, the number of species was reduced to two. Fewer than 100 specimens of the genus have been collected to date, and found only in a small part of South America in the border region of Brazil and Argentina.{{Citation needed|date=November 2024}}

It remains unknown what their habits are, where they can be found in the water (though there is some evidence that they may lurk in the muck at the bottom of ponds), what their position in the phylogeny of the water bugs is, or whether they brood their eggs as all other giant water bugs do. Some of these questions are currently being addressed by entomologists.

== References == {{Reflist}}

Category:Nepomorpha genera Category:Belostomatidae Category:Arthropods of Argentina