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Usilanus

Usilanus is a genus of Asian seed bugs in the family Rhyparochromidae and tribe Drymini, erected by William Lucas Distant in 1901. The known species distribution appears to include Indochina.

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Usilanus
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Heteroptera
Family: Rhyparochromidae
Subfamily: Rhyparochrominae
Tribe: Drymini
Genus: Usilanus
Distant, 1909
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Usilanus is a genus of Asian seed bugs in the family Rhyparochromidae and tribe Drymini, erected by William Lucas Distant in 1901.1 The known species distribution appears to include Indochina.2

Species

The Lygaeoidea Species File2 includes:

  1. Usilanus burmanicus Distant, 1909type species (by subsequent designation)
  2. Usilanus pictus (Distant, 1918) - Laos
References

References

  1. Distant WL (1909) Rhynchotal notes. XLVII. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist., 8(3), 317–345.
  2. Lygaeoidea Species File: genus Usilanus Distant, 1909 (retrieved 21 November 2025)
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