Spartocera
Appearance
Spartocera | |
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Spartocera gigantea | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hemiptera |
Suborder: | Heteroptera |
Family: | Coreidae |
Subfamily: | Coreinae |
Tribe: | Spartocerini |
Genus: | Spartocera Laporte, 1832 |
Spartocera is a genus of leaf-footed bugs in the family Coreidae. There are about 18 described species in Spartocera.[1][2][3][4]
Species
These 18 species belong to the genus Spartocera:
- Spartocera alternata Dallas, 1852
- Spartocera batatas (Fabricius, 1798) (giant sweetpotato bug)
- Spartocera brevicornis Stål, 1870
- Spartocera bruchii (Pennington, 1921)
- Spartocera cinnamomea (Hahn, 1833)
- Spartocera denticulata Stål, 1870
- Spartocera dentiventris Berg, 1883
- Spartocera diffusa (Say, 1832)
- Spartocera dubia Dallas, 1852
- Spartocera fusca (Thunberg, 1783)
- Spartocera gigantea Distant, 1892
- Spartocera grandis Distant, 1901
- Spartocera granulata Stål, 1870
- Spartocera lativentris Stål, 1870
- Spartocera melas Brailovsky, 1987
- Spartocera pantomima (Distant, 1881)
- Spartocera quadricollis Signoret, 1861
- Spartocera rubicunda Spinola, 1852
References
- ^ "Spartocera Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
- ^ "Spartocera". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
- ^ "Spartocera genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
- ^ Webb, Nick; Eades, David C. (2019). "genus Spartocera Laporte, 1832". Coreoidea species file online, Version 5.0. Retrieved 2019-07-02.
Further reading
- Osborn, Herbert (1904). "Notes on South American Hemiptera-Heteroptera". The Ohio Naturalist. 5: 195–204. hdl:1811/1404.
- Packauskas, Richard (2010). Catalog of the Coreidae, or Leaf-Footed Bugs, of the New World. Fort Hays Studies Series. Vol. 71. ISBN 978-0-615-23109-9.
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