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Genus Microporus

burrowing bug that was carrying grass seed - Microporus nigrita

Microporus nigrita? - Microporus nigrita

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 Pentatomoidea

Family Cydnidae (Burrowing Bugs)

Subfamily Cydninae

Tribe Geotomini

Genus Microporus

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Microporus Palisot de Beauvois 1805 is a genus of fungi

Explanation of Names

Microporus Uhler 1872

Numbers

3 spp. in our area (incl. one adventive)(1)(2), ~20 spp. total(3)

Range

The introduced M. nigrita is known from across the Palaearctic and a portion of the Oriental Region(3), in our area, e. US (south to SC) + ON(2); of our two native species, one is restricted to CA and the other is widespread(4)

Works Cited

1.	American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico Ross H. Arnett. 2000. CRC Press.

2.	Nine Heteroptera (Hemiptera) new to Canada, with additional new provincial records for three other species in Canada. G.G.E. Scudder. 2009. Journal of the Entomological Society of British Columbia, 106: 3-9.

3.	Aethus nigritus (F.), a Palearctic burrower bug established in eastern North America (Hemiptera-Heteroptera: Cydnidae) E R Hoebeke and A G Wheeler. 1984. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 86:738-744.

4.	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 Brad Barnd on 5 April, 2012 - 9:08pm
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 19 February, 2024 - 2:39pm

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