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Genus Chiloxanthus

Chiloxanthus stellatus (Curtis) - Chiloxanthus stellatus Shore Bug - Chiloxanthus stellatus Shore Bug - Chiloxanthus stellatus Shore Bug - Chiloxanthus stellatus Shore Bug - Chiloxanthus stellatus Shore Bug - Chiloxanthus stellatus
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 Leptopodomorpha
Family Saldidae (Shore Bugs)
Subfamily Chiloxanthinae
Genus Chiloxanthus
Explanation of Names
Chiloxanthus Reuter 1891
Numbers
2 spp. in our area(1), several in Eurasia(2)
Range
in our area, AK & n. Canada(3)
Works Cited
1.American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico
Ross H. Arnett. 2000. CRC Press.
2.Keys to the insects of the Far East of the USSR, Vol. 2. Homoptera and Heteroptera
Lehr, P. A., ed. 1988. Leningrad, Nauka Publishing House.
3.Aquatic Insects of North America
R. W. Merritt, K. W. Cummins, M.B. Berg. 2008. Kendall/Hunt.