Pelocoris balius

Pelocoris balius is a species of creeping water bug in the family Naucoridae. It is found in Florida.^[1][2][3] In the Everglades, P. balius is locally common in shorter hydroperiod sites.^[4]

Pelocoris balius
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hemiptera
Suborder:	Heteroptera
Family:	Naucoridae
Genus:	Pelocoris
Species:	P. balius
Binomial name
Pelocoris balius La Rivers, 1970
Synonyms[1]
Pelocoris femoratus balius La Rivers, 1970

Pelocoris balius was originally described as a subspecies of P. femoratus by Ira La Rivers in 1970,^[5] but it was elevated to species by Robert Sites in 2015.^[6]

References

1. "Pelocoris balius Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
2. "Pelocoris balius". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
3. "Pelocoris balius species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
4. Pintar, Matthew R.; Kline, Jeffrey L.; Trexler, Joel C. (2021). "The aquatic Heteroptera (Hemiptera) of marshes in the Florida Everglades". Florida Entomologist. 104 (4): 307–319. doi:10.1653/024.104.0408.
5. La Rivers, Ira (1970). "A new subspecies of Pelocoris femoratus (Palisot-Beauvois) from Florida (Hemiptera: Naucoridae)". Biological Society of Nevada Occasional Papers. 26: 1–4.
6. 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.