Pelocoris

Pelocoris is a genus of creeping water bugs in the family Naucoridae found in the Americas. There are about 15 described species in Pelocoris.^[1][2][3]

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

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

1. "Pelocoris Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
2. "Pelocoris". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
3. "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