''Mercatus'' is a genus of
shield bugs
The Pentatomoidea are a superfamily of insects in the suborder Heteroptera of the order Hemiptera. As hemipterans, they possess a common arrangement of sucking mouthparts. The roughly 7000 species under Pentatomoidea are divided into 21 familie ...
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
The term tribe is used in many different contexts to refer to a category of human social group. The predominant worldwide use of the term in English is in the discipline of anthropology. The definition is contested, in part due to conflict ...]
Phyllocephalini, erected by
Distant in 1902.
References
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Pentatomidae
Pentatomidae genera
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