Pelocoris

Pelocoris

Pelocoris femoratus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Clade:	Pancrustacea
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hemiptera
Suborder:	Heteroptera
Family:	Naucoridae
Genus:	Pelocoris Stål, 1876

Pelocoris is a genus of creeping water bugs in the family Naucoridae found in the Americas. There are about 15 described species in Pelocoris.

Species

These 15 species belong to the genus Pelocoris:

Pelocoris balius La Rivers, 1970
Pelocoris biimpressus Montandon, 1898
Pelocoris binotulatus (Stål, 1860)
Pelocoris bipunctulus (Herrich-Schäffer, 1853)
Pelocoris carolinensis Torre-Bueno, 1907
Pelocoris femoratus (Palisot de Beauvois, 1820)
Pelocoris magister Montandon, 1898
Pelocoris megistus La Rivers, 1969
Pelocoris nepaeformis (Fabricius, 1803)
Pelocoris nitidus Montandon, 1898
Pelocoris poeyi (Guérin-Ménéville, 1838)
Pelocoris politus Montandon, 1897
Pelocoris procurrens White, 1879
Pelocoris subflavus Montandon, 1898

References

↑ "Pelocoris Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
↑ "Pelocoris". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
↑ "Pelocoris genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-23.

Further reading

Sites, Robert W. (2015). "Pelocoris balius La Rivers (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Naucoridae) in Florida: New Status of an Enigmatic Saucer Bug". Zootaxa. 3915 (3): 433–438. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3915.3.8. PMID 25662135.
Aukema, Berend; Rieger, Christian, eds. (1995). Catalogue of the Heteroptera of the Palaearctic Region, Vol. 1: Enicocephalomorpha, Dipsocoromorpha, Nepomorpha, Gerromorpha and Leptopodomorpha. The Netherlands Entomological Society. ISBN 978-90-71912-12-2.

External links

Media related to Pelocoris at Wikimedia Commons

Taxon identifiers
Pelocoris	Wikidata: Q10622455 Wikispecies: Pelocoris BOLD: 374916 BugGuide: 97289 CoL: 6KC9 EoL: 35209 GBIF (old): 2020275 iNaturalist: 178342 Insecta.pro: 936565 IRMNG: 1293212 ITIS: 103665 NCBI: 280206 Open Tree of Life: 457910 Plazi: 53E03332-5F32-3F6C-0239-AD0F99B9C67D