Tropidothorax

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Tropidothorax
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Tropidothorax cruciger
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Heteroptera
Family: Lygaeidae
Subfamily: Lygaeinae
Genus: Tropidothorax
Bergroth, 1894

Tropidothorax is a genus of seed bugs or ground bugs belonging to the family Lygaeidae, subfamily Lygaeinae.There are about 11 described species in Tropidothorax. [1] [2]

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Species

These species belong to the genus Tropidothorax:

Tropidothorax autolycus (Distant, 1904)
Tropidothorax cruciger (Motschulsky, 1859)
Tropidothorax elegans (Distant, 1883)
Tropidothorax fimbriatus (Dallas, 1852)
Tropidothorax leucopterus (Goeze, 1778)
Tropidothorax maculatus (Dallas, 1852)
Tropidothorax neocaledonicus Bergroth, 1909
Tropidothorax sinensis (Reuter, 1888)
Tropidothorax sternalis (Dallas, 1852)
Tropidothorax villersi Slater & Wilcox, 1973
Tropidothorax wittmeri Hamid & Hamid, 1985

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References

  1. "Tropidothorax". GBIF. Retrieved 2021-10-05.
  2. Dellapé, Pablo M.; Henry, Thomas J. (2021). "genus Tropidothorax Bergroth, 1894". Lygaeoidea Species File. Retrieved 2021-10-05.
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