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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » True Bugs (Heteroptera) » Pentatomomorpha » Lygaeoidea » Dirt-colored Seed Bugs (Rhyparochromidae) » Rhyparochrominae » Gonianotini » Malezonotus

Genus Malezonotus

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Remarks · Works Cited
(Plant Bug?) Nymphs - Malezonotus (Plant Bug?) Nymphs - Malezonotus Prytanes? - Malezonotus rufipes Nevada bug - Malezonotus sodalicius Malezonotus rufipes? - Malezonotus rufipes small bug - Malezonotus rufipes Dirt-colored Seed Bug - Malezonotus angustatus Miridae. ? - Malezonotus sodalicius
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Hemiptera (True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies)
Suborder Heteroptera (True Bugs)
Infraorder Pentatomomorpha
Superfamily Lygaeoidea
Family Rhyparochromidae (Dirt-colored Seed Bugs)
Subfamily Rhyparochrominae
Tribe Gonianotini
Genus Malezonotus
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
revised in Ashlock (1958)(1)
Explanation of Names
Malezonotus Barber 1918
Numbers
8 spp. in our area(2)
Remarks
M. rufipes is the type species of the genus (type locality: Texas) know across the Southern States from Arizona to Virginia and Missouri.
M. sodalicius also has a wide range over the NW USA;
other species have relatively restricted distributions.
See Ashlock's excellent revision of the genus. (Merrill Sweet, pers. comm.)
Works Cited
1.A revision of the genus Malezonotus (Hemiptera-Heteroptera: Lygaeidae)
Ashlock P.D. 1958. Ann. Ent. Soc. Am. 51: 199-208.
2.American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico
Ross H. Arnett. 2000. CRC Press.
Contributed by v belov on 12 April, 2009 - 12:02am
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn
Last updated 15 February, 2023 - 11:29pm

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