Melanolestes

Melanolestes
Melanolestes
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Family: Reduviidae
Subfamily: Peiratinae
Genus: Melanolestes
Stål, 1866 [1]

Melanolestes is a Nearctic and Neotropical genus of assassin bugs (Reduviidae). Nine species are known [2][3]:

  • Melanolestes argentinus Berg
  • Melanolestes degener Walker
  • Melanolestes morio Erichson
  • Melanolestes picicornis Stål
  • Melanolestes picinus Stål
  • Melanolestes picipes (Herrich-Schaeffer)
  • Melanolestes goiasensis
  • Melanolestes lugens
  • Melanolestes minutus

References

  1. ^ "Melanolestes". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=107387. 
  2. ^ Maria del Carmen Coscarón & Diego L. Carpintero (1993). "Revision of the genus Melanolestes Stål (Heteroptera: Reduviidae, Peiratinae)". Insect Systematics & Evolution 24: 361–381. doi:10.1163/187631293X00163. http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/brill/ise/1993/00000024/00000004/art00001. 
  3. ^ J. J. Morrone & M. del C. Coscarón (1996). Distributional patterns of the American Peiratinae (Heteroptera: Reduviidae). 70. Zoologische Mededelingen. pp. 1–15. http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/document/149972. 

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