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Genus Oxycarenus

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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 Oxycarenidae
Genus Oxycarenus
Explanation of Names
Oxycarenus Fieber 1837
Numbers
A single (adventive) species in our area
Range
native to the Old World, one subcosmopolitan sp. of African origin recently found in FL