''Fracastorius'' is a genus of Asian
seed bugs in the
tribe
The term tribe is used in many different contexts to refer to a category of human social group. The predominant worldwide usage of the term in English is in the discipline of anthropology. This definition is contested, in part due to confl ...
Homoeocerini
The HomoeoceriniAmyot, Serville (1843) ''Histoire naturelle des insectes. Hémiptères'' i-lxxvi, 1-675, 1-6. are a Tribe (biology), tribe of Coreidae, leaf-footed bugs, in the subfamily Coreinae erected by Amyot and Serville in 1843. Genera are ...
, erected by
William Lucas Distant
William Lucas Distant (12 November 1845 Rotherhithe – 4 February 1922 Wanstead) was an English entomologist.
Biography Early years
Distant was born in Rotherhithe, the son of whaling captain Alexander Distant Rao, B.R. Subba (1998) ''Histor ...
in 1901. It contains the species ''
Fracastorius cornutus'' Distant, 1902 originally recorded from Myanmar.
[Distant WL (1902) ''The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Rhynchota 1 (Heteroptera)'' 354, 368.]
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Hemiptera genera
Hemiptera of Asia
Coreinae
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