Melanopleurus
| Melanopleurus | |
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| Melanopleurus fuscosus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hemiptera |
| Suborder: | Heteroptera |
| Family: | Lygaeidae |
| Subfamily: | Lygaeinae |
| Genus: | Melanopleurus Stal, 1874 |
Melanopleurus (meaning "black side") 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]
Species[edit]
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[edit]
- ^ "Melanopleurus Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
- ^ "Melanopleurus". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
- ^ "Melanopleurus genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
- ^ Dellapé, Pablo M.; Henry, Thomas J. (2019). "genus Melanopleurus Stal, 1874". Lygaeoidea Species File. Retrieved 2019-07-02.
Further reading[edit]
- 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.
- Slater, Alex. (August 30, 1992). A genus level revision of western hemisphere Lygaeinae (Heteroptera: Lygaeidae) with keys to species. The University of Kansas Science Bulletin 55(1). pp. 21-22. DOI: 10.5962/bhl.part.772
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