Between September 1956 and July 1957 the Dutch Heteroptera expert René Cobben conducted fieldwork on Heteroptera on the six main Dutch Caribbean islands. Based on his fieldwork and in cooperation with several experts, he produced a series of ten papers, each focusing on different families of Heteroptera. A large part of the collected material, however, remained unpublished. In this paper we present records and a key to the Rhyparochrominae and the Lygaeinae (family Lygaeidae) from Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao, based on material of Cobben and additional specimens collected on Curaçao in 2021 and 2022.

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H.K.M. Speelman, B. Aukema, V.J. Kalkman, & J. Veldboom. (2025). The Lygaeinae and Rhyparochrominae of the Dutch Caribbean islands of Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao (Heteroptera: Lygaeidae). Nederlandse Faunistische Mededelingen, 64, 51–68.