Melacoryphus

TaxID: 1656799

Basic Information

Melacoryphus

Seed Bug

Melacoryphus is a genus of seed bugs in the family Lygaeidae. There are about 11 described species in Melacoryphus, found in Central and North America.

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Taxonomic Information

Eukaryota

Arthropoda

Insecta

Hemiptera

Lygaeidae

Melacoryphus

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Photos (5 photos)

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(c) Katja Schulz@BY
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(c) Mike Quinn@BY-NC
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(c) Tony Iwane@BY-NC
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(c) Eric Carpenter@BY-NC

Morphological Features

Body length 5.5–6.5 mm. General coloration black with reddish markings. Head black; antennal segment I surpassing tylus by about 1/3 its length; antennal segments: I 0.4, II 0.82, III 0.57, IV 0.7 (male); I 0.39, II 0.88, III 0.64, IV 0.76 (female). Pronotum mainly black, with frontal and posterior margins reddish; pronotum length 0.97–1.05, width across anterior margin 0.98–1.05, width across humeral angles 1.6–1.78. Thoracic pleura dull blackish, except acetabular margins and posterior pleural margins slightly ochraceous. Lateral margin of corium sometimes with red areas confined to basal half or covering whole length. Hind tarsi: segment I 0.33–0.36, II 0.1–0.13, III 0.18–0.2.

Source: GBIF Life Stage: Adult Source Type: Taxonomic treatment
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Plazi taxonomic treatment

Host Plants (0 host plants)

Data sources: EPPO Global Database and relevant literature.

No host plants available.

Quarantine Status (1 records)

Data sources: IPPC website and national quarantine websites; verified by human review.

Country Status Year Added
United States of America Quarantine pests —

Distribution (0 countries)

Data Sources: EPPO Global Database and GBIF.

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No distribution records available.

Genomes (0 records)

Data source: NCBI.

No genome records available.

Transcriptomes (0 records)

Data source: NCBI.

No transcriptome records available.

DNA Barcodes (0 records)

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Data source: BOLD.

No DNA barcode records available.

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