Meschiidae

Meschiidae
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Heteroptera
Infraorder: Pentatomomorpha
Superfamily: Lygaeoidea
Family: Meschiidae
Malipatil, 2014
Meschia barrowensis (Heteroptera, Meschiidae), observed by Stephen Thorpe on April 8, 2022 at Auckland University Central Campus & Albert Park, Auckland, New Zealand. Identified on iNaturalist.
Meschia barrowensis (Heteroptera, Meschiidae), observed by Stephen Thorpe on April 8, 2022 at Auckland University Central Campus & Albert Park, Auckland, New Zealand.

Meschiidae is a family of true bugs in the order Hemiptera. It comprises at least three genera and about five described species within the Meschiidae family.

Genera

These two genera belong to the family Meschiidae:

References

  1. ↑ "Meschiidae". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-05-24.
  2. ↑ Dellapé, Pablo M.; Henry, Thomas J. (2021). "family Meschiidae". Lygaeoidea Species File. Retrieved 2021-10-04.

Further reading

  • Bantock, T.; Botting, J. (2013). "British Bugs, an online identification guide to UK Hemiptera". Retrieved 2019-05-24.
  • Henry, Thomas J. (1997). "Phylogenetic Analysis of Family Groups within the Infraorder Pentatomomorpha (Hemiptera: Heteroptera), with Emphasis on the Lygaeoidea". Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 90 (3): 275–301. doi:10.1093/aesa/90.3.275.
  • Malipatil, M. B. (13 June 2013). "Meschiidae, a new family of Lygaeoidea (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) from India and Australia, with descriptions of a new genus and two new species". Zootaxa. 3815 (2): 233–248. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3815.2.4. PMID 24943596.