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Abstract	The voracious behaviour of water bugs is well known as they attack a great diversity of invertebrate and vertebrate organisms which may be of various sizes, even larger than they are (Schnack, 1976; Menke, 1979). All of the Belostomatidae family members have forelegs adapted to catch prey which are usually ambushed by bugs. After catching prey, bugs handle it in order to insert their piercing mouth parts to inject saliva and liquefy prey's tissues to suck.
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Name	Affiliation	Home page	e-mail	Total pubs
Armua-de-Reyes CA	Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Fisicas y Naturales y Agrimensura, Universidad del Nordeste, 9 de julio 1449, 3400-Corrientes, Argentina			1
Estevez AL	Departamento Cientifico de Entomologia, Museo de Ciencias Naturales La Plata, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Paseo del Bosque, s/n, 1900-La Plata, Argentina		estevezanalia@hotmail.com	1