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Scutelleridae (metallic shield bug)

Insecta - Hemiptera - Scutelleridae

Taxonomy
Scutelleridae was named by Leach (1815). It is extant.

It was reranked as the subfamily Scutellerinae by Statz and Wagner (1950).

It was assigned to Hemiptera by Piton (1940); to Pentatomidae by Statz and Wagner (1950); and to Pentatomoidea by Szwedo (2018) and Wu et al. (2018).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1815Scutelleridae Leach
1940Scutelleridae Piton p. 154
1950Scutellerinae Statz and Wagner p. 121
2018Scutelleridae Szwedo p. 113
2018Scutelleridae Wu et al.

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
Dicondylia
Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
RankNameAuthor
NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
Clareocercaria
Acercaria()
superorderPancondylognatha
Condylognatha
orderHemiptera
suborderHeteroptera
infraorderPentatomomorphaLeston et al. 1954
superfamilyPentatomoideaLeach 1815
familyScutelleridaeLeach 1815
familyScutelleridaeLeach 1815

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Fm. Scutelleridae Leach 1815 [metallic shield bug]
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Subfm. Eurygastrinae Amyot and Audinet-Serville 1843
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G. Eurygaster Laporte 1833
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Eurygaster granulosus Förster 1891
Subfm. Pachycorinae Amyot and Audinet-Serville 1843
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G. Pachycoris Burmeister 1835
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Pachycoris escheri Heer 1853
Pachycoris germari Heer 1853
Pachycoris protogaeus Heer 1853
G. Tetyra Fabricius 1803
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Tetyra hassii Heer 1853
Subfm. Scutellerinae Leach 1815
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G. Poecilocoris Dallas 1848
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Poecilocoris rottensis Statz and Wagner 1950
Subfm. Tectocorinae McDonald and Cassis 1984
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G. Tectocoris Hahn 1834
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Tectocoris angustilobatus Henriksen 1922
G. †Teleocydnus Henriksen 1922
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Teleocydnus transitorius Henriksen 1922
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available