Metacanthus

Metacanthus

Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Clade:	Pancrustacea
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hemiptera
Suborder:	Heteroptera
Family:	Berytidae
Subfamily:	Metacanthinae
Genus:	Metacanthus Costa, 1847
Synonyms
Aknisus McAtee, 1919

Metacanthus is a genus of stilt bugs in the family Berytidae. There are more than 20 described species in Metacanthus.

Species

These 26 species belong to the genus Metacanthus:

Metacanthus acintus Qi & Nonnaizab, 1992
Metacanthus annulosus (Fieber, 1859)
Metacanthus antaoensis Lindberg, 1958
Metacanthus braggodochio (Fernando, 1960)
Metacanthus calvus (McAtee, 1919)
Metacanthus concolor White, 1878
Metacanthus delhiensis (Menon & Ghai, 1959)
Metacanthus elegans Costa, 1847
Metacanthus horvathi Stusak, 1964
Metacanthus jagoensis Lindberg, 1958
Metacanthus lineatus (Jakovlev, 1875)
Metacanthus maghrebinus Pericart, 1977
Metacanthus meridionalis (Costa, 1843)
Metacanthus microphtalmus Stusak, 1965
Metacanthus mollis Stusak, 1964
Metacanthus multispinus (Ashmead, 1887)
Metacanthus nigricapillus Stusak, 1964
Metacanthus nitidus Stusak, 1964
Metacanthus pectoralis Dallas, 1852
Metacanthus pertenerum Breddin, 1907
Metacanthus prima (Distant, 1918)
Metacanthus pulchellus Dallas, 1852
Metacanthus pusillus (Horvath, 1812)
Metacanthus tenellus Stal, 1859
Metacanthus tenerrimus Bergroth, 1912
Metacanthus transvaalensis Stusak, 1963

References

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

Further reading

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.

External links

Media related to Metacanthus at Wikimedia Commons

Taxon identifiers
Metacanthus	Wikidata: Q10582523 Wikispecies: Metacanthus AFD: Metacanthus BugGuide: 342707 CoL: 8NQQS EoL: 74324 Fauna Europaea: 453555 Fauna Europaea (new): 8ee85f95-66a1-43bb-9265-513ca3684309 GBIF (old): 5152544 iNaturalist: 330117 Insecta.pro: 941404 IRMNG: 1305842 ITIS: 107663 Lygaeoidea Species File (new): 923473 NCBI: 763258 Open Tree of Life: 632918 Paleobiology Database: 306101

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