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Meschiidae

Meschiidae is a family of true bugs in the order Hemiptera. It comprises at least three genera and about five described species within the Meschiidae family.

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Meschiidae
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Heteroptera
Infraorder: Pentatomomorpha
Superfamily: Lygaeoidea
Family: Meschiidae
Malipatil, 2014

Meschiidae is a family of true bugs in the order Hemiptera. It comprises at least three genera and about five described species within the Meschiidae family.12

Genera

These two genera belong to the family Meschiidae:

  • Heissothignus Slater & Brailovsky, 2006
  • Meschia Distant, 1910
  • Neomeschia Malipatil, 2014
References

References

  1. "Meschiidae". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-05-24.
  2. Dellapé, Pablo M.; Henry, Thomas J. (2021). "family Meschiidae". Lygaeoidea Species File. Retrieved 2021-10-04.
Further reading

Further reading

  • 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.
  • Malipatil, M. B. (13 June 2013). "Meschiidae, a new family of Lygaeoidea (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) from India and Australia, with descriptions of a new genus and two new species". Zootaxa. 3815 (2): 233–248. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3815.2.4. PMID 24943596.