Pelocoris

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Pelocoris
Creeping Water Bug - Pelocoris femoratus, Maydale Park, Colesville, Maryland.jpg
Pelocoris femoratus
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Family: Naucoridae
Genus: Pelocoris
Stål, 1876

Pelocoris is a genus of creeping water bugs in the family Naucoridae. There are about 15 described species in Pelocoris.[1][2][3]

Species[]

These 15 species belong to the genus Pelocoris:

  • Pelocoris balius La Rivers, 1970
  • Montandon, 1898
  • (Stål, 1860)
  • (Herrich-Schäffer, 1853)
  • Torre-Bueno, 1907
  • Pelocoris femoratus (Palisot de Beauvois, 1820)
  • Montandon, 1898
  • La Rivers, 1969
  • (Fabricius, 1803)
  • Montandon, 1898
  • (Guérin-Ménéville, 1838)
  • Montandon, 1897
  • White, 1879
  • La Rivers, 1948
  • Montandon, 1898

References[]

  1. ^ "Pelocoris Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
  2. ^ "Pelocoris". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-23.

Further reading[]

  • Sites, Robert W. (2015). "Pelocoris balius La Rivers (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Naucoridae) in Florida: New Status of an Enigmatic Saucer Bug". Zootaxa. 3915 (3): 433–438. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3915.3.8. PMID 25662135.
  • Aukema, Berend; Rieger, Christian, eds. (1995). Catalogue of the Heteroptera of the Palaearctic Region, Vol. 1: Enicocephalomorpha, Dipsocoromorpha, Nepomorpha, Gerromorpha and Leptopodomorpha. The Netherlands Entomological Society. ISBN 978-90-71912-12-2.

External links[]

  • Media related to Pelocoris at Wikimedia Commons


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