Pentacora

Pentacora is a genus of shore bugs in the family Saldidae. There are about 12 described species in Pentacora.[1][2][3]

Pentacora sphacelata

Pentacora
Pentacora signoreti
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Heteroptera
Family: Saldidae
Subfamily: Chiloxanthinae
Genus: Pentacora
Reuter, 1912

Species

These 12 species belong to the genus Pentacora:

  • Pentacora grossi Cobben, 1980
  • Pentacora hirta (Say, 1832)
  • Pentacora leucographa Rimes, 1951
  • Pentacora ligata (Say, 1832)
  • Pentacora malayensis (Dover, 1929)
  • Pentacora ouachita J. Polhemus, 1993
  • Pentacora salina (Bergroth, 1893)
  • Pentacora saratogae Cobben, 1965
  • Pentacora signoreti (Guérin-Méneville, 1857)
  • Pentacora sonneveldti Blöte, 1947
  • Pentacora spacelata (Uhler, 1877)
  • Pentacora sphacelata (Uhler, 1877)

References

  1. "Pentacora Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
  2. "Pentacora". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-23.

Further reading

  • Schuh, Randall T.; Galil, Bella; Polhemus, John T. (1987). "Catalog and bibliography of Leptopodomorpha (Heteroptera)". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 185: 243–406. hdl:2246/970.
  • Aukema, Berend; Rieger, Christian, eds. (1995). Catalogue of the Heteroptera of the Palaearctic Region, Vol. 1: Enicocephalomorpha, Dipsocoromorpha, Nepomorpha, Gerromorpha and Leptopodomorpha. The Netherlands Entomological Society. ISBN 978-90-71912-12-2.
  • Media related to Pentacora at Wikimedia Commons


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