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

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]

Genera

These three 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.


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