''Megarrhamphus'' is a genus of Asian
shield bugs
The Pentatomoidea are a superfamily of insects in the Heteroptera suborder of the Hemiptera order. As Hemiptera, they share a common arrangement of sucking mouthparts. The roughly 7000 species under Pentatomoidea are divided into 21 families (1 ...
in the subfamily
Phyllocephalinae
The Phyllocephalinae are a subfamily of shield bugs erected by Amyot and Serville in 1843.
Tribes and genera
''BioLib'' lists the following genera in four tribes:[tribe
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Megarrhamphini, erected by
Ernst Evald Bergroth Ernst Evald Bergroth (April 1, 1857 – November 22, 1925) was a Finnish physician and amateur entomologist.
Life and medical career
Bergroth was born on April 1, 1857 in Jakobstad, Finland and studied at the University in Helsinki. He then went t ...
in 1891.
[Bergroth EE (1891) ''Rev. Ent. Français'', 10.]
Species
The following are included in ''BioLib.cz'':
[BioLib.cz: genus ''Megarrhamphus'' Bergroth, 1891 (retrieved 2 December 2021)]
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# '' Megarrhamphus bengalensis'' Ahmad & Kamaluddin, 1988
# '' Megarrhamphus fuscus'' (Vollenhoven, 1868)
# '' Megarrhamphus hastatus'' (Fabricius, 1803) - type species
# '' Megarrhamphus intermedius'' (Vollenhoven, 1868)
# '' Megarrhamphus ismaili'' (Abbasi, 1986)
# '' Megarrhamphus limatus'' (Herrich-Schäffer, 1851)
# '' Megarrhamphus tibialis'' Yang, 1934
# '' Megarrhamphus truncatus'' (Westwood, 1837)
References
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Pentatomidae
Heteroptera genera
Shield bugs
Hemiptera of Asia
Taxa named by Ernst Evald Bergroth