Melanopleurus
Genus of true bugs
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Melanopleurus (meaning "black side") is a genus of seed bugs in the family Lygaeidae. There are more than 20 described species in the genus Melanopleurus.[1][2][3][4]
| Melanopleurus | |
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| Melanopleurus fuscosus | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hemiptera |
| Suborder: | Heteroptera |
| Family: | Lygaeidae |
| Subfamily: | Lygaeinae |
| Genus: | Melanopleurus Stal, 1874 |
Species
These 21 species belong to the genus Melanopleurus:
- Melanopleurus amnigena (Brailovsky & Barrera, 1984)
- Melanopleurus aureus (Distant, 1893)
- Melanopleurus barrerai Brailovsky, 1979
- Melanopleurus belfragei (Stal, 1874) (redcoat seed bug)
- Melanopleurus bicolor (Herrich-Schaeffer, 1850)
- Melanopleurus bistriangularis (Say, 1831)
- Melanopleurus brevis Brailovsky, 1975
- Melanopleurus complicatus Brailovsky, 1975
- Melanopleurus dearmasi (Alayo, 1973)
- Melanopleurus fuscosus Brailovsky, 1977
- Melanopleurus inflatus Brailovsky, 1979
- Melanopleurus maculicorium Maldonado-Capriles, 1974
- Melanopleurus matucanae (Brailovsky, 1978)
- Melanopleurus nubilus Brailovsky, 1979
- Melanopleurus perplexus Scudder, 1981
- Melanopleurus pyrrhopterus (Stal, 1874)
- Melanopleurus tenor Brailovsky, 1979
- Melanopleurus tetraspilus Stal, 1874
- Melanopleurus vazquezae Brailovsky, 1979
- Melanopleurus villai Brailovsky, 1979
- Melanopleurus wygodzinskyi (Alayo, 1973)
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