Lethocerus maximus De Carlo, 1938 Geographic distribution. Curaçao (Nieser & Alkins-Koo 1991), Trinidad & Tobago (Hynes 1948), Colombia (Cummings 1933), Venezuela (De Carlo 1938), Guyana (Uhler 1884), Suriname (De Geer 1773), French Guiana (Amyot & Serville 1843), Brazil (Cummings 1933), Peru (Perez-Goodwyn 2006), Bolivia (De Carlo 1938), Paraguay (Cummings 1933), Argentina (Río & Achával 1904). Distribution in Peru. Loreto, Huánuco (Perez-Goodwyn 2006). Note. South American records of L. grandis (Linnaeus, 1758) from outside the area defined by Perez-Goodwyn (2006) for that species are considered to be L. maximus by the same author.

Published as part of Peralta-Argomeda, Jorge Luis, Rodrigues, Juliana Mourão Dos Santos, Huamantinco-Araujo, Ana & Moreira, Felipe Ferraz Figueiredo, 2024, Checklist of the aquatic and semiaquatic bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Gerromorpha, Leptopodomorpha & Nepomorpha) of Peru, pp. 1-72 in Zootaxa 5467 (1) on page 29, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5467.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/11613746