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Crompus

Crompus is a genus of seed bugs in the family Lygaeidae. Crompus are terrestrial insects in the Ischnorhynchinae subfamily of seed bugs that are endemic to Australia. There are three described species in Crompus.

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Crompus
Crompus opacus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Heteroptera
Infraorder: Pentatomomorpha
Superfamily: Lygaeoidea
Family: Lygaeidae
Genus: Crompus
Stål, 1874

Crompus is a genus of seed bugs in the family Lygaeidae. Crompus are terrestrial insects in the Ischnorhynchinae subfamily of seed bugs that are endemic to Australia.1 There are three described species in Crompus.12

Species

These three species belong to the genus Crompus:

  • Crompus nesiotes Ashlock, 1967
  • Crompus oculatus Stål, 1874
  • Crompus opacus Scudder, 1958
References

References

  1. "Genus Crompus". Lygaeoidea. Retrieved 2022-01-01.
  2. "Crompus". GBIF. Retrieved 2022-01-01.
Further reading

Further reading

  • Slater, James A.; O'Donnell, Jane E. (1995). A Catalogue of the Lygaeidae of the World (1960-1994). The New York Entomological Society. ISBN 978-0-913-424-16-2.
External links
  • Media related to Crompus at Wikimedia Commons
  • Data related to Crompus at Wikispecies