Metopoplax

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: Lygaeoidea

Familia: Oxycarenidae
Genus: Metopoplax

Species: M. ditomoides – M. fuscinervis – M. origani
Name

Metopoplax Fieber, 1860

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Metopoplax is a genus of true bugs in the family Oxycarenidae. There are at least three described species in Metopoplax.[1][2][3][4]

Species

These three species belong to the genus Metopoplax:

Metopoplax ditomoides (A. Costa, 1847) c g b
Metopoplax fuscinervis Stal, C., 1872 c g
Metopoplax origani (Kolenati, F.A., 1845) c g

Data sources: i = ITIS,[5] c = Catalogue of Life,[1] g = GBIF,[2] b = Bugguide.net[3]
References

"Browse Metopoplax". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-04-05.
"Metopoplax". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-04-05.
"Metopoplax Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-04-05.
"Metopoplax Overview". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 2018-04-05.

"ITIS, Integrated Taxonomic Information System". Retrieved 2018-04-05.

Further reading

Arnett, Ross H. Jr. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico (2nd ed.). CRC Press. ISBN 0-8493-0212-9.
Blatchley, W.S. (1926). Heteroptera, or true bugs of eastern North America, with especial reference to the faunas of Indiana and Florida. Nature Publishing. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.6871.
Henry, Thomas J.; Froeschner, Richard C., eds. (1988). Catalog of the Heteroptera, or True Bugs, of Canada and the Continental United States. E. J. Brill. ISBN 0-916846-44-X.
Walker, Francis (1871). Catalogue of the Specimens of Hemiptera Heteroptera in the Collection of the British Museum, pt. IV. British Museum. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.9254.