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Genus of true bugs

Megymenum
Megymenum dentatum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Heteroptera
Family: Dinidoridae
Subfamily: Megymeninae
Genus: Megymenum
Guérin-Méneville, 1831
Synonyms
  • Amaurus Burmeister, 1834
  • Anoplocephala Stål, 1870
  • Megalymenum Burmeister, 1835
  • Pissistes Stål, 1870
  • Platydius Westwood, 1835
  • Pseudaradus Burmeister, 1834

Megymenum is a genus of Asian and Australian shield bugs in the family Dinidoridae and typical of the subfamily Megymeninae. It was erected by Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville in 1831 and species have been recorded from India through to Japan, Indochina, Malesia, New Guinea and Australia.

Description

Species in genus Megymenum have extended or greatly expanded pronotal margins (as in the type species M. dentatum) with a rounded scutellum: characteristic of the Dinidoridae. In most species the second valvifers are reduced, lightly sclerotised, and fused in the middle. Some species have reduced hemelytra and are flightless.

Species

Megymenum brevicorne

The following species are currently (as of July 2024) accepted in the genus:

  1. Megymenum affine Boisduval, 1835
  2. Megymenum anacanthum Vollenhoven, 1868
  3. Megymenum aruensis Kocorek & Danielczok, 2002
  4. Megymenum basale Walker, 1868
  5. Megymenum brevicorne (Fabricius, 1787)
  6. Megymenum confusum Kocorek & J.Lis, 2000
  7. Megymenum dentatum Guérin-Méneville, 1831 - type species
  8. Megymenum distanti Kocorek & Ghate, 2012
  9. Megymenum dohrni J.Lis, 1990
  10. Megymenum gracilicorne Dallas, 1851
  11. Megymenum lisi Kocorek, 2000
  12. Megymenum megaspinosum Kocorek, 2000
  13. Megymenum mekongum Distant, 1921
  14. Megymenum obliquum Schouteden, 1913
  15. Megymenum parallelum Vollenhoven, 1868
  16. Megymenum pratti Distant, 1911
  17. Megymenum quadratum Vollenhoven, 1868
  18. Megymenum rectangulatum Breddin, 1901
  19. Megymenum salebrosum J.Lis, 1992
  20. Megymenum semivestitum Vollenhoven, 1868
  21. Megymenum severini Bergroth, 1892
  22. Megymenum spinosum (Burmeister, 1834)
  23. Megymenum sumatranum Kocorek & J.Lis, 2008
  24. Megymenum tuberculatum Hemala, Kocorek & Lis, 2020

References

  1. ^ "Megymenum Guérin-Méneville, 1831". Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 29 July 2024.
  2. Guérin FÉ (1831) Insectes, pls.12, 14bis. In: L.I. Duperrey, Voyage autour du monde, exécuté par ordre du Roi, sur la corvette de sa Majesté, La Coquille, pendant les années 1822, 1823, 1824 et 1825.; Histoire naturelle. Zoologie, par M. Lesson; Insectes, par F.-E. Guérin, planches 1-21 (1830-1831); text pp.57-302 (1838). Arthus Bertrand, Paris.
  3. Randall T. Schuh; James Alexander Slater (1995). True Bugs of the World (Hemiptera:Heteroptera): Classification and Natural History. Cornell University Press. pp. 225–. ISBN 0-8014-2066-0.
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