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Species Systelloderes biceps

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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 Enicocephalomorpha (Unique-headed Bugs)
Family Enicocephalidae (Gnat Bugs)
Genus Systelloderes
Species biceps (Systelloderes biceps)
Explanation of Names
Systelloderes biceps (Say 1832)
Range
e. NA to AZ (NS‒FL to ON‒IA‒UT‒AZ) to Panama / Cuba - Map (1)(2)(3), the only sp. known to be widely dist.
Remarks
Type Locality: Pennsylvania
Works Cited
1.First record of the Enicocephalidae (Heteroptera) in Michigan and Ohio
Swanson D.R. 2015. Great Lakes Entomol. 48: 1-8.
2.Catalog of the Heteroptera, or True Bugs of Canada and the Continental United States
Thomas J. Henry, Richard C. Froeschner. 1988. Brill Academic Publishers.
3.Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)