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Dysdercus (cotton stainer bug)

Insecta - Hemiptera - Pyrrhocoridae

Taxonomy
Dysdercus was named by Amyot and Audinet-Serville (1843). It is extant.

It was assigned to Pyrrhocoridae by Scudder (1890) and Kerzhner (2001).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1843Dysdercus Amyot and Audinet-Serville p. 272
1890Dysdercus Scudder p. 409
2001Dysdercus Kerzhner p. 250

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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
superfamilyPyrrhocoroidea
familyPyrrhocoridae()
genusDysdercus

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.

G. Dysdercus Amyot and Audinet-Serville 1843 [cotton stainer bug]
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†Dysdercus cinctus Scudder 1890
†Dysdercus unicolor Scudder 1890
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: chitinc
Environment: terrestrialc
Locomotion: actively mobilep
Created: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Modified: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Source: c = class, p = phylum
References: Bush and Bambach 2015, Kiessling 2004

Age range: Chadronian or 37.20000 to 33.90000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Chadronian37.2 - 33.9USA (Colorado) Dysdercus cinctus, Dysdercus unicolor (106384)