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Genus Wheelerodemus

Wheelerodemus muhlenbergiae Henry and Sweet - Wheelerodemus muhlenbergiae - male

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 Blissidae

Genus Wheelerodemus

Explanation of Names

Wheelerodemus Henry & Sweet 2015

named in honor of Alfred G. Wheeler, who collected the type series(1)

Numbers

monotypic genus(1)

Range

OK-TX(1)

Works Cited

1.	Wheelerodemus muhlenbergiae, a new genus and new species of Blissidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Lygaeoidea) from Okla. and Texas. Henry, T.J., Sweet, M.H. 2015. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 117(2): 151-161.

Contributed by Mike Quinn on 27 October, 2015 - 2:20pm
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 26 April, 2017 - 1:51pm

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