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Antillocorini
Tribe Antillocorini
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
Rhyparochromidae (Dirt-colored Seed Bugs)
Subfamily
Rhyparochrominae
Tribe
Antillocorini
Explanation of Names
Antillocorini Ashlock 1964
Numbers
8 spp. in 4 genera in our area
(
1
)
, >90 spp. in 24 genera worldwide
(
2
)
Range
worldwide; most diverse in the Neotropics (no more than five genera in the rest of the world)
(
2
)
Works Cited
1.
American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico
Ross H. Arnett. 2000. CRC Press.
2.
Zoological catalogue of Australia: Hemiptera: Heteroptera (Pentatomomorpha)
Cassis G., Gross G.F. 2002. CSIRO Publishing, 751 pp.
Contributed by
v belov
on 8 August, 2009 - 3:25am
Last updated 22 January, 2014 - 12:53pm