''Melanolestes'' (meaning "black robber") is a
Nearctic
The Nearctic realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms constituting the Earth's land surface.
The Nearctic realm covers most of North America, including Greenland, Central Florida, and the highlands of Mexico. The parts of North America ...
and
Neotropical
The Neotropical realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms constituting Earth's land surface. Physically, it includes the tropical terrestrial ecoregions of the Americas and the entire South American temperate zone.
Definition
In biogeogra ...
genus of
assassin bug
The Reduviidae is a large cosmopolitan family of the suborder Heteroptera of the order Hemiptera (true bugs). Among the Hemiptera and together with the Nabidae almost all species are terrestrial ambush predators; most other predatory Hemiptera ...
s (Reduviidae). Nine species are known :
Species
* ''
Melanolestes argentinus''
Berg, 1879
* ''
Melanolestes degener''
(Walker
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*Walker, Arizona, in Yavapai County
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* ...
, 1873)
* ''
Melanolestes goiasensis
''Melanolestes'' (meaning "black robber") is a Nearctic and Neotropical genus of Reduviidae, assassin bugs (Reduviidae). Nine species are known :
Species
* ''Melanolestes argentinus'' Berg, 1879
* ''Melanolestes degener'' (Francis Walker (e ...
''
Coscarón & Carpintero, 1993
* ''
Melanolestes lugens''
Coscarón & Carpintero, 1993
* ''
Melanolestes minutus''
Coscarón & Carpintero, 1993
* ''
Melanolestes morio''
(Erichson
Wilhelm Ferdinand Erichson (26 November 1809 – 18 December 1848) was a German entomologist and doctor.
He was the author of many articles about insects mainly in '' Archiv für Naturgeschichte''. When writing in Latin, he latinised ''Wilhelm'' ...
, 1848)
* ''
Melanolestes picicornis''
( Stål, 1860)
* ''
Melanolestes picinus''
Stål, 1872
* ''
Melanolestes picipes''
(Herrich-Schaeffer, 1846)
References
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Hemiptera of Central America
Reduviidae
Cimicomorpha genera