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]

Species

References

  1. "Melanolestes". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
  2. Maria del Carmen Coscarón & Diego L. Carpintero (1993). "Revision of the genus Melanolestes Stål (Heteroptera: Reduviidae, Peiratinae)". Insect Systematics & Evolution. 24 (4): 361–381. doi:10.1163/187631293X00163.
  3. J. J. Morrone & M. del C. Coscarón (1996). "Distributional patterns of the American Peiratinae (Heteroptera: Reduviidae)". 70 (1). Zoologische Mededelingen: 1–15.
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