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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » True Bugs (Heteroptera) » Pentatomomorpha » Pentatomoidea » Stink Bugs (Pentatomidae) » Pentatominae » Carpocorini » Menecles

Genus Menecles

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Works Cited
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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 Pentatomomorpha
Superfamily Pentatomoidea
Family Pentatomidae (Stink Bugs)
Subfamily Pentatominae
Tribe Carpocorini
Genus Menecles
Explanation of Names
Menecles Stål 1867
Numbers
2 spp. total, both in our area(1)
Identification
see (2)
Range
one sp. widespread in the US (ME-FL to CA) and adjacent Canada, another in w. TX (Big Bend area)(3)(BG data)
Works Cited
1.Rider D. (2006-) Pentatomoidea home page
2.The genus Menecles Stål (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae)
Rolston L.H. 1973. J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. 80: 234-237 [1972].
3.Catalog of the Heteroptera, or True Bugs of Canada and the Continental United States
Thomas J. Henry, Richard C. Froeschner. 1988. Brill Academic Publishers.
Contributed by Lynette Elliott on 2 June, 2005 - 7:09pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 27 October, 2019 - 12:35pm

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