Massocephalus

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Paraneoptera
Superordo: Condylognatha
Ordo: Hemiptera
Subordo: Heteroptera
Infraordo: Pentatomomorpha
Superfamilia: Pentatomoidea

Familia: Pentatomidae
Subfamilia: Pentatominae
Tribus: Cappaeini
Genus: Massocephalus
Species (2): M. maculatus – M. stysi
Name

Massocephalus Dallas, 1851:230

Type species: Massocephalus maculatus Dallas, 1851 [By monotypy]

References
Primary references

Dallas, W.S. 1851. List of the specimens of hemipterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part 1. London: Printed by order of the Trustees. DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.20373. BHL.Reference page. [p. 230]

Additional references

Kirkaldy, G.W. 1909. Notes on the hemipterous genus Oechalia. Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society 2(2): 82–84. BHL Reference page. [p. 51]
Rider, D.A. 2006. Family Pentatomidae. p. 233–403, In: Aukema, A. & Rieger, C. (eds). Catalogue of the Heteroptera of the Palaearctic Region, vol 5. The Netherlands Entomological Society, Amsterdam. ResearchGate Open access PDF. Reference page. [p. 283]
Rider, D.A. 2008. Massocephalus stysi, a new species of Pentatomidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) from the Philippines. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 48(2): 583–590. PDF Reference page.

Links

Zicha, Ondřej et al. Massocephalus Dallas, 1851 – Taxon details on Biological Library (BioLib).
Global Biodiversity Information Facility. 2019. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset. Taxon: Massocephalus.
ION
Nomenclator Zoologicus
Massocephalus Classification of Pentatomoidea, North Dakota State University.