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Subfamily Micrelytrinae

Stenocoris tipuloides (De Geer) - Stenocoris tipuloides Broad-headed Bug - Protenor belfragei unidentified bug - Stenocoris Broad headed bug? - Protenor belfragei little stick - Stenocoris Unk insect - Stenocoris Rice Bug - Stenocoris Stenocoris sp? - Stenocoris
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 Coreoidea (Leatherbugs)
Family Alydidae (Broad-headed Bugs)
Subfamily Micrelytrinae
Explanation of Names
Microelytrinae Stål 1867
Numbers
12 spp. in 6 genera in our area(1), arranged into two tribes(2) (Leptocorizini are treated as a subfamily in(1))
Food
mainly on grasses(2)
Works Cited
1.American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico
Ross H. Arnett. 2000. CRC Press.
2.Zoological catalogue of Australia: Hemiptera: Heteroptera (Pentatomomorpha)
Cassis G., Gross G.F. 2002. CSIRO Publishing, 751 pp.