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Metacanthus

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Metacanthus
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Heteroptera
Family: Berytidae
Subfamily: Metacanthinae
Genus: Metacanthus
Costa, 1847
Synonyms[1]
  • Aknisus McAtee, 1919

Metacanthus is a genus of stilt bugs in the family Berytidae. There are more than 20 described species in Metacanthus.[1][2][3][4]

Species

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These 26 species belong to the genus Metacanthus:

References

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  1. ^ a b "Metacanthus Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
  2. ^ "Metacanthus". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
  3. ^ Dellapé, Pablo M.; Henry, Thomas J. (2019). "genus Metacanthus Costa, 1847". Lygaeoidea Species File. Retrieved 2019-07-02.

Further reading

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  • Henry, Thomas J. (1997). "Monograph of the Stilt Bugs, or Berytidae (Heteroptera), of the Western Hemisphere". Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Washington: 1–149. ISSN 0096-5839.
  • 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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