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Genus Rhinacloa

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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 Cimicomorpha
Superfamily Miroidea
Family Miridae (Plant Bugs)
Subfamily Phylinae
Tribe Nasocorini
Genus Rhinacloa
Explanation of Names
Rhinacloa Reuter 1876
Numbers
6 spp. in our area, ~40 spp. total(1)
Identification
Recognized by the distinctive sericeous, appressed, scale-like setae, the row of spicules dorsally on the distal half of the metafemur, and the basally broad claws with the pulvilli either flaplike or covering nearly the entire ventral claw surface(2)
Range
neotropical group ranging into so. US(1)
Habitat
not host specific, unlike most phylines(2)
Works Cited
1.Schuh, R.T. 2002-2013. On-line Systematic Catalog of Plant Bugs (Insecta: Heteroptera: Miridae).
2.Revision of the plant bug genus Rhinacloa Reuter with a phylogenetic analysis (Hemiptera, Miridae)
Schuh, Randall T. & Schwartz, Michael D. 1985. American Museum of Natural History.
Contributed by Robin McLeod on 13 November, 2008 - 5:44pm
Additional contributions by v belov, onegunah
Last updated 29 May, 2012 - 7:23pm

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