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Species Mezira pacifica

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Flat bug - Mezira pacifica Flat bug - Mezira pacifica Aradid - Mezira pacifica Aradidae: Mezira or Aradus? - Mezira pacifica Aradidae: Mezira or Aradus? - Mezira pacifica Mezira pacifica? - Mezira pacifica Flat Bug - Mezira pacifica Flat Bug - Mezira pacifica

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
Family Aradidae (Flat Bugs)
Subfamily Mezirinae
Genus Mezira
Species pacifica (Mezira pacifica)

Explanation of Names

Mezira pacifica Usinger 1936

Range

w. NA (BC-CA to *MT-ID-WY-AZ)(1)(*BG data); the only member of the subfamily reaching Canada

Works Cited

1.First North American records of the Eastern Palearctic Flat Bug Mezira subsetosa Josifov and Kerzhner (Hemiptera: Aradidae:...
Hoebeke E.R., Williams G., Carter M.E. 2019. Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. 121: 439‒448.
Contributed by v belov on 25 December, 2013 - 9:36pm
Last updated 15 July, 2020 - 8:38am

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