Melanolestes

Melanolestes
Photo of Melanolestes picipes
Melanolestes picipes
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Heteroptera
Family: Reduviidae
Subfamily: Peiratinae
Genus: Melanolestes
Stål, 1866 

Melanolestes (meaning "black robber") is a Nearctic and Neotropical genus of assassin bugs (Reduviidae). Nine species are known :

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. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)