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Genus Melanopleurus

Representative Images

Worn Melanopleurus? - Melanopleurus pyrrhopterus Mating bugs? - Melanopleurus fuscosus - male - female seed bug - Melanopleurus tenor Melanopleurus belfragei? - Melanopleurus seed bug id - Melanopleurus tenor Melanopleurus - Melanopleurus belfragei Bug est 5-7mm - Melanopleurus tenor Female, Melanopleurus belfragei? - Melanopleurus belfragei - female

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 Lygaeidae (Seed Bugs)
Subfamily Lygaeinae
Genus Melanopleurus

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

most spp. treated as Melanopleurus in (1) have been moved to Melacoryphus(2)

Explanation of Names

Melanopleurus Stål 1874

Numbers

9 spp. in our area(1), 21 total(3)

Size

4‒10 mm(2)

Range

so.-c. Canada and sw. US to Peru & W. Indies(2)

Print References

Brailovsky, H. (1977) Una nueva especie del género Melanopleurus Stål (Hemiptera-Heteroptera-Lyageidae-Lygaeinae) de California, Estados Unidos de Norteamerica. An. Inst. Bio. Univ. Nal. Auton. de Mexico 1: 129–132.
(4)

Works Cited

1.Catalog of the Heteroptera, or True Bugs of Canada and the Continental United States
Thomas J. Henry, Richard C. Froeschner. 1988. Brill Academic Publishers.
2.A Genus Level Revision of Western Hemisphere Lygaeinae (Heteroptera: Lygaeidae) with Keys to Species
Alex Slater. 1992. University of Kansas Science Bulletin.
3.Dellapé P.M., Henry T.J. (2016‒) Lygaeoidea species file
4.Seis nuevas especies del género Melanopleurus Stal (Hemiptera-Heteroptera-Lygaeidae-Lygaeinae)
Brailovsky H. 1979. An. Inst. Bio. Univ. Nal. Auton. de Mexico 1: 193–204.
Contributed by Eric R. Eaton on 16 July, 2008 - 9:04pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 20 June, 2024 - 8:44pm

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