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Abstract
The aim of this paper is to report 10 predation events of anuran amphibians by giant water bugs of the genus Lethocerus in different localities in northeastern Argentina. With the exception of Scinax fuscovarius and Physalaemus biligonigerus, they are all new records of adult anurans being prey to these invertebrates. We conclude that this interaction is of extremely importance in the regulation of amphibian populations and should be studied in a thorough manner.
The authors thanks Diego Baldo for critical reading of the manuscript, Claudia Szumik, Alejandra Molina, and Gastón Zubarán for the help in the identification of the water bugs, and the herpetologist Soledad Palomas. The authors also thank two anonymous referees for the useful comments and corrections that improved substantially the MS. AT, JMB, PJT, and JMF are grateful to the continuous support of CONICET.
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