Alice Springs Fauna •
Alice Springs True Bugs (Heteroptera)Aphylidae (Pentatomoid Bug) Eucalyptus Tip-wilting Bug Ground Shield Bug (Choerocoris paganus) Ippatha australiensis Melanerythrus mactans Poecilometis patruelis (Shield Bug) Soapberry Bugs, Leptocoris sp Spilostethus sp Water Scorpion
Melanerythrus mactans (Seed Bug) rescued from a swimming pool in Alice Springs, Northern Territory. They are found throughout Australia Melanerythrus is from the Greek words melanos, meaning black and erythros, meaning red.
- Scientific classification
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Subphylum: Hexapoda
- Class: Insecta
- Informal: Pterygotes
- Order: Hemiptera
- Suborder: Heteroptera
- Infraorder: Pentatomomorpha
- Superfamily: Lygaeoidea
- Family: Lygaeidae
- Subfamily: Lygaeinae
- Genus: Melanerythrus
- Species: Melanerythrus mactans
Footnote & References
- Melanerythrus mactans (Stål, 1866), Atlas of Living Australia, https://bie.ala.org.au/species/Melanerythrus mactans
- Melanerythrus mactans, iNaturalist, https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/331532265
Alice Springs True Bugs (Heteroptera)Aphylidae (Pentatomoid Bug) Eucalyptus Tip-wilting Bug Ground Shield Bug (Choerocoris paganus) Ippatha australiensis Melanerythrus mactans Poecilometis patruelis (Shield Bug) Soapberry Bugs, Leptocoris sp Spilostethus sp Water Scorpion
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