Melanopleurus

Melanopleurus is a genus of seed bugs in the family Lygaeidae. There are more than 20 described species in the genus Melanopleurus.[1][2][3][4]

Melanopleurus
Melanopleurus fuscosus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Family: Lygaeidae
Subfamily: Lygaeinae
Genus: Melanopleurus
Stal, 1874

Species

These 21 species belong to the genus Melanopleurus:

  • Melanopleurus amnigena (Brailovsky & Barrera, 1984)
  • Melanopleurus aureus (Distant, 1893)
  • Melanopleurus barrerai Brailovsky, 1979
  • Melanopleurus belfragei (Stal, 1874) (redcoat seed bug)
  • Melanopleurus bicolor (Herrich-Schaeffer, 1850)
  • Melanopleurus bistriangularis (Say, 1831)
  • Melanopleurus brevis Brailovsky, 1975
  • Melanopleurus complicatus Brailovsky, 1975
  • Melanopleurus dearmasi (Alayo, 1973)
  • Melanopleurus fuscosus Brailovsky, 1977
  • Melanopleurus inflatus Brailovsky, 1979
  • Melanopleurus maculicorium Maldonado-Capriles, 1974
  • Melanopleurus matucanae (Brailovsky, 1978)
  • Melanopleurus nubilus Brailovsky, 1979
  • Melanopleurus perplexus Scudder, 1981
  • Melanopleurus pyrrhopterus (Stal, 1874)
  • Melanopleurus tenor Brailovsky, 1979
  • Melanopleurus tetraspilus Stal, 1874
  • Melanopleurus vazquezae Brailovsky, 1979
  • Melanopleurus villai Brailovsky, 1979
  • Melanopleurus wygodzinskyi (Alayo, 1973)

References

  1. "Melanopleurus Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
  2. "Melanopleurus". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
  3. Dellapé, Pablo M.; Henry, Thomas J. (2019). "genus Melanopleurus Stal, 1874". Lygaeoidea Species File. Retrieved 2019-07-02.

Further reading

  • Slater, James A.; O'Donnell, Jane E. (1995). A Catalogue of the Lygaeidae of the World (1960-1994). The New York Entomological Society. ISBN 978-0-913-424-16-2.
  • Aukema, Berend; Rieger, Christian, eds. (2001). Catalogue of the Heteroptera of the Palaearctic Region, Vol. 4: Pentatomorpha I: Aradidae, Lygaeidae, Piesmatidae, Malcidae, Berytidae, Colobathristidae, Largidae, Pyrrhocoridae. The Netherlands Entomological Society. ISBN 978-90-71912-21-4.


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