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Metacanthus

Insecta - Hemiptera - Berytidae

Taxonomy
Metacanthus was named by Costa (1847). It is extant.

It was assigned to Berytidae by Nel (1992).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1847Metacanthus Costa
1992Metacanthus Nel p. 276

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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
superfamilyLygaeoideaSchilling 1829
familyBerytidae()
genusMetacanthusCosta 1847

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. Metacanthus Costa 1847
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Subg. Metacanthus (Megalomerium) Fieber 1859
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available