Malcidae

Malcidae is a family of true bugs in the order Hemiptera. There are at least 4 genera and more than 40 described species in Malcidae.^[1][2][3]

Malcidae
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hemiptera
Suborder:	Heteroptera
Infraorder:	Pentatomomorpha
Superfamily:	Lygaeoidea
Family:	Malcidae Stål, 1865

Genera

These four genera belong to the family Malcidae:

• Chauliops Scott, 1874
• Malcus Stal, 1859
• Neochauliops Stys, 1963
• † Eochauliops Camier, Logghe, Nel & Garrouste, 2019

References

1. "Malcidae Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-05-24.
2. "Malcidae". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-05-24.
3. Dellapé, Pablo M.; Henry, Thomas J. (2021). "family Malcidae Stål, 1865". Lygaeoidea Species File. Retrieved 2021-10-04.

Further reading

• 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.
• 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.