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Genus Megalotomus

Representative Images

Broad-headed Bug - Megalotomus quinquespinosus Broad-headed Bug - Alydus pilosulus? - Megalotomus quinquespinosus Heteroptera? - Megalotomus quinquespinosus bug - Megalotomus quinquespinosus Megalotomus quinquespinosus Lupine Bug - Megalotomus quinquespinosus This one is really buggin' me. - Megalotomus quinquespinosus Hyalymenus subinermis ? - Megalotomus quinquespinosus

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 Coreoidea (Leatherbugs)
Family Alydidae (Broad-headed Bugs)
Subfamily Alydinae
Genus Megalotomus

Explanation of Names

Megalotomus Fieber 1860

Numbers

A single species in our area + 7 spp. in Eurasia(1); another US sp. formerly treated in this genus has been transferred (along with another New World species, N. parvus =latifascia) to the genus Neomegalotomus (N. rufipes, FL & West Indies) (Henry & Wilson 2004; Schaefer & Ahmad 2008)

Range

coast to coast in NA(2) and across Eurasia(1)

Works Cited

1.Livermore L.J.R., Lemaître V.A., Dolling W.R., Webb M.D. Coreoidea species file online. Version 5.0
2.How to Know the True Bugs
Slater, James A., and Baranowski, Richard M. 1978. Wm. C. Brown Company.
Contributed by Troy Bartlett on 14 March, 2004 - 8:30pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, v belov
Last updated 24 October, 2012 - 4:50pm

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