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genus Metacanthus Costa, 1847

• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Citations (8):
  • Costa, A. 1847. Atti Ist. Sci. nat. Napoli 258 >> Metacanthus    urn:lsid:Lygaeoidea.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:479805
  • Froeschner & Henry. 1988. In Henry & Froeschner. Catalog of the Heteroptera, or True Bugs, of Canada and the Continental United States. 59 >> Metacanthus
  • Henry & Froeschner. 1998. Contributions of the American Entomological Institute 30(4):35 >> Note: Henry (1997c, Mem. Entomol. Soc. Wash., 19: 124) provided a key to the three New World species belonging to the nominate subgenus. >> Metacanthus
  • Henry & Froeschner. 2000. Proc. Entomol. Soc. Was. 102(4):1006 >> Note: Berytus meridionalis as type species following Pericart 1984 >> Metacanthus
  • Péricart. 2001. In Aukema & Rieger [Ed.]. Catalogue of the Heteroptera of the Palearctic Region. Volume 4. Pentatomomorpha I. The Netherland Entomological Society 4:239 >> Metacanthus
  • Cassis & G.F. Gross. 2002. In Houston & A. Wells. Zoological Catalogue of Australia. 27.3B:168 >> Metacanthus
  • Dellapé, P. M. 2014. Biodiversidad de Artrópodos Argentinos vol. 3 423 >> Metacanthus
  • Henry, P. M. Dellapé & A. S. de Paula. 2015. True Bugs (Heteroptera) of the Neotropics 464, 466 >> Metacanthus
• See subgenus Metacanthus for additional information.

• subgenus Cardopostethus Fieber, 1859
• species annulosus (Fieber, 1859)
• species pulchellus Dallas, 1852
• subgenus Metacanthus Costa, 1847
• synonym Aknisus McAtee, 1919
• synonym Iterduca Distant, 1918
• synonym Megalomerium Fieber, 1859
• species acintus Qi & Nonnaizab, 1992
• species antaoensis Lindberg, 1958
• species braggodochio (Fernando, 1960)
• species calvus (McAtee, 1919)
• species concolor White, 1878
• species delhiensis (Menon & Ghai, 1959)
• species horvathi Stusak, 1964
• species jagoensis Lindberg, 1958
• species lineatus (Jakovlev, 1875)
• species maghrebinus Pericart, 1977
• species meridionalis (Costa, 1843)
• species microphtalmus Stusak, 1965
• species mollis Stusak, 1964
• species multispinus (Ashmead, 1887)
• species nigricapillus Stusak, 1964
• species nitidus Stusak, 1964
• species pectoralis Dallas, 1852
• species pertenerum (Breddin, 1907)
• species prima (Distant, 1918)
• species pusillus (Horvath, 1812)
• species tenellus Stal, 1859
• species tenerrimus Bergroth, 1912
• species transvaalensis Stusak, 1963

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