| Melanopleurus | |
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| Melanopleurus fuscosus | |
| Scientific classification  | |
| 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
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
- ↑ "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
- 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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