Melacoryphus
Appearance
Melacoryphus | |
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Melacoryphus lateralis | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hemiptera |
Suborder: | Heteroptera |
Family: | Lygaeidae |
Subfamily: | Lygaeinae |
Genus: | Melacoryphus Slater Alex, 1988 |
Melacoryphus is a genus of seed bugs in the family Lygaeidae. There are about 11 described species in Melacoryphus, found in Central and North America.[1][2][3]
Species
These 11 species belong to the genus Melacoryphus:
- Melacoryphus admirabilis (Uhler, 1872)
- Melacoryphus circumlitus (Stal, 1862)
- Melacoryphus facetus (Say, 1831)
- Melacoryphus lagunensis Cervantes & Brailovsky, 2014
- Melacoryphus lateralis (Dallas, 1852)
- Melacoryphus micropterus Slater Alex, 1988
- Melacoryphus nigrinervis (Stal, 1874)
- Melacoryphus pedregalensis Brailovsky, 1977
- Melacoryphus rubicollis (Uhler, 1894)
- Melacoryphus rubriger (Stal, 1862)
- Melacoryphus rubrolimbatus Slater Alex, 1988
References
- ^ "Melacoryphus". GBIF. Retrieved 2020-06-06.
- ^ "Melacoryphus genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2020-06-06.
- ^ Dellapé, Pablo M.; Henry, Thomas J. (2019). "genus Melacoryphus Slater Alex, 1988". Lygaeoidea Species File. Retrieved 2019-07-02.
Further reading
- Aukema, Berend; Rieger, Christian, eds. (2001). Catalogue of the Heteroptera of the Palaearctic Region, Vol. 4: Pentatomorpha I: Aradidae, Lygaeidae, Piesmatidae, Malcidae, Berytidae, Colobathristidae, Largidae, Pyrrhocoridae. The Netherlands Entomological Society. ISBN 978-90-71912-21-4.
- Slater, James A.; O'Donnell, Jane E. (1995). A Catalogue of the Lygaeidae of the World (1960-1994). The New York Entomological Society. ISBN 978-0-913-424-16-2.
External links
- Media related to Melacoryphus at Wikimedia Commons