Megalonotus

Megalonotus
Megalonotus praetextatus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hemiptera
Suborder:	Heteroptera
Family:	Rhyparochromidae
Tribe:	Megalonotini
Genus:	Megalonotus Fieber, 1860

Megalonotus is a genus of dirt-colored seed bugs in the family Rhyparochromidae. There are at least 20 described species in Megalonotus.

Megalonotus praetextatus

Species

These 27 species belong to the genus Megalonotus:

• Megalonotus antennatus (Schilling, 1829) ^{c g}
• Megalonotus brevicornis (Puton, A., 1883) ^{c g}
• Megalonotus chiragrus (Thomson, 1870) ^{i c g}
• Megalonotus colon Puton, A., 1874 ^{c g}
• Megalonotus dilatatus (Herrich-Schaeffer, 1840) ^{c g}
• Megalonotus dilitatus (Herrich-Schaeffer, 1840) ^g
• Megalonotus emarginatus (Rey, C., 1888) ^{c g}
• Megalonotus hirsutus Fieber, F.X., 1861 ^{c g}
• Megalonotus lederi (Horvath, G., 1880) ^{c g}
• Megalonotus longipilus (Puton, A., 1884) ^{c g}
• Megalonotus maximus (Puton, A. & Noualhier, 1895) ^{c g}
• Megalonotus merus Seidendstucker, 1979 ^{c g}
• Megalonotus mixtus (Horvath, G., 1887) ^{c g}
• Megalonotus nitidicollis Puton, A., 1874 ^{c g}
• Megalonotus opaconotum (Lindberg, H., 1953) ^{c g}
• Megalonotus parallelus (Horvath, G., 1911) ^{c g}
• Megalonotus praetextatus (Herrich-Schaeffer, G.H.W., 1850) ^{c g}
• Megalonotus puncticollis (Lucas, 1849) ^{c g}
• Megalonotus rugulosus (Linnavuori, R., 1953) ^{c g}
• Megalonotus sabulicola (Thomson, 1870) ^{i b}
• Megalonotus sabulicolus (Thomson, 1870) ^{c g}
• Megalonotus scaurus Seidenstucker, 1973 ^{c g}
• Megalonotus semela Linnavuori, 1970 ^{c g}
• Megalonotus setosus Puton, A., 1874 ^{c g}
• Megalonotus sophenus Seidenstucker, 1973 ^{c g}
• Megalonotus subtilissimus Roubal, 1961 ^g
• Megalonotus tricolor (Horvath, G., 1895) ^{c g}

Data sources: i = ITIS, c = Catalogue of Life, g = GBIF, b = Bugguide.net

Further reading

• Arnett, Ross H. Jr. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico (2nd ed.). CRC Press. ISBN 0-8493-0212-9.
• Blatchley, W.S. (1926). Heteroptera, or true bugs of eastern North America, with especial reference to the faunas of Indiana and Florida. Nature Publishing. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.6871.
• Henry, Thomas J.; Froeschner, Richard C., eds. (1988). Catalog of the Heteroptera, or True Bugs, of Canada and the Continental United States. E. J. Brill. ISBN 0-916846-44-X.
• Walker, Francis (1871). Catalogue of the Specimens of Hemiptera Heteroptera in the Collection of the British Museum, pt. IV. British Museum. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.9254.

External links

• Media related to Megalonotus at Wikimedia Commons