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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » True Bugs (Heteroptera) » Cimicomorpha » Assassin Bugs (Reduviidae) » Ambush Bugs (Phymatinae) » Macrocephalini » Lophoscutus

Genus Lophoscutus

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Remarks · Works Cited
Ambush Bug? - Lophoscutus Lophoscutus prehensilis? - Lophoscutus uhleri - male Lophoscutus? - Lophoscutus uhleri beetle - Lophoscutus Lophoscutus sp. - Lophoscutus uhleri nymph - Lophoscutus Lophoscutus uhleri? - Lophoscutus Male, Lophoscutus uhleri? - Lophoscutus - male
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
Family Reduviidae (Assassin Bugs)
Subfamily Phymatinae (Ambush Bugs)
Tribe Macrocephalini
Genus Lophoscutus
Explanation of Names
Lophoscutus Kormilev 1951
Numbers
2 spp. in our area, close to 70 total(1)
Identification
The pale scutellar spot is narrow and minute or absent (vs large and distinct in Macrocephalus).
key to spp. in Kormilev (1987)
Range
L. prehensilis se.US to AZ, L. uhleri AZ(2)(BG data)
Remarks
Macrocephalus arizonicus was synonymized with M. uhleri. Then uhleri was pulled to Lophoscutus and M. arizonicus was re-instated but stayed in Macrocephalus. --drswanny, 1.xi.2009
Works Cited
1.BioLib.cz
2.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 v belov on 3 November, 2009 - 2:13am
Additional contributions by cotinis, Beatriz Moisset, Mike Quinn
Last updated 29 March, 2025 - 11:38am

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