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Dicranocephalus

Dicranocephalus is the sole genus of true bugs in the family Stenocephalidae. There are about 30 described species in the genus Dicranocephalus.

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Dicranocephalus
Dicranocephalus albipes
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Heteroptera
Family: Stenocephalidae
Genus: Dicranocephalus
Hahn, 1826

Dicranocephalus is the sole genus of true bugs in the family Stenocephalidae. There are about 30 described species in the genus Dicranocephalus.1

Species

These 30 species belong to the genus Dicranocephalus:2

  • Dicranocephalus agilis (Scopoli, 1763)
  • Dicranocephalus albipes (Fabricius, 1781)
  • Dicranocephalus alticolus (Zheng, 1981)
  • Dicranocephalus aroonanus Brailovsky, Barrera, Göllner-Scheiding & Cassis, 2001
  • Dicranocephalus brevinotum (Lindberg, 1935)
  • Dicranocephalus caffer (Dallas, 1852)
  • Dicranocephalus femoralis (Reuter, 1888)
  • Dicranocephalus ferganensis (Horváth, 1887)
  • Dicranocephalus ganziensis Ren, 1990
  • Dicranocephalus haoussa (Villiers, 1950)
  • Dicranocephalus hirsutus Moulet, 1993
  • Dicranocephalus insularis (Dallas, 1852)
  • Dicranocephalus kashmiriensis Lansbury, 1966
  • Dicranocephalus lateralis (Signoret, 1879)
  • Dicranocephalus lautipes (Stål, 1860)
  • Dicranocephalus marginatus (Ferrari, 1874)
  • Dicranocephalus marginicollis (Puton, 1881)
  • Dicranocephalus medius (Mulsant & Rey, 1870)
  • Dicranocephalus mucronifer (Stål, 1860)
  • Dicranocephalus pallidus (Signoret, 1879)
  • Dicranocephalus panelii Lindberg, 1959
  • Dicranocephalus pilosus (Bergroth, 1912)
  • Dicranocephalus prolixus Lansbury, 1965
  • Dicranocephalus pseudotestaceus Lansbury, 1966
  • Dicranocephalus punctarius (Stål, 1866)
  • Dicranocephalus punctipes (Stål, 1873)
  • Dicranocephalus putoni (Horváth, 1897)
  • Dicranocephalus schmitzi Göllner-Scheiding, 1996
  • Dicranocephalus setulosus (Ferrari, 1874)
  • Dicranocephalus testaceus (Stål, 1860)
Bibliography

Bibliography

  • R. T. Schuh, J. A. Slater: True Bugs of the World (Hemiptera: Heteroptera). Classification and Natural History. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York 1995.
References

References

  1. "Dicranocephalus Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 1 April 2019.
  2. Webb, Nick; Eades, David C. (2018). "genus Dicranocephalus Hahn, 1826". Coreoidea species file online, Version 5.0. Retrieved 1 May 2019.
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