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For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada

Species Melacoryphus nigrinervis

Neacoryphus nigrinervis (Stål)  - Melacoryphus nigrinervis Lygaeospilus - Melacoryphus nigrinervis Melacoryphus nigrinervis? - Melacoryphus nigrinervis Melacoryphus nigrinervis? - Melacoryphus nigrinervis Melacoryphus nigrinervis Charcoal Seed Bug - Melacoryphus nigrinervis Melacoryphus nigrinervis Melacoryphus nigrinervis
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 Lygaeidae (Seed Bugs)
Subfamily Lygaeinae
Genus Melacoryphus
Species nigrinervis (Melacoryphus nigrinervis)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Melacoryphus nigrinervis (Stål 1874)
Syn: Neacoryphus nigrinervis (Stål 1874)
Range
sw US (s.CA-TX-CO-UT) to S. America; W. Indies - Map (1)(2), mostly Rocky Mtn and front range states
Print References
Slater, A. (1988) A new genus and two new species of Lygaeinae (Heteroptera: Lygaeidae). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, 61(3): 308-316. (3)
Stal, C. (1874) Enumeratio Hemipterorum pt. 4. Enumeratio Hemipterorum pt. 12, 1–186.
Works Cited
1.Catalog of the Heteroptera, or True Bugs of Canada and the Continental United States
Thomas J. Henry, Richard C. Froeschner. 1988. Brill Academic Publishers.
2.Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
3.A new genus and two new species of Lygaeinae (Heteroptera: Lygaeidae).
Slater, A. 1988. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, 61(3): 308-316.