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Aphelocheirus

Xie, Tong-Yin;Liu, Guo-Qing

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Aphelocheirus

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Aphelocheirus is a genus of true bugs, the only genus belonging to the family Aphelocheiridae.

Species

GENUS

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumArthropoda
  3. ClassInsecta
  4. OrderHemiptera
  5. FamilyAphelocheiridae
Habitatfreshwater

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
21
With media
3
Family
Aphelocheiridae
Collections
USNM, AM, BPBM
Recorded in
Thailand, South Africa, Philippines, Lesotho

Wikidata facts

Instance of
taxon
Parent taxon
Aphelocheiridae
Image
Aphelocheirus aestivalis.jpg
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Commons category
Aphelocheirus
taxon rank
genus
taxon name
Aphelocheirus
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Encyclopedic overview

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  • Species
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Aphelocheirus is a genus of true bugs, the only genus belonging to the family Aphelocheiridae.

The genus was first described by John O. Westwood in 1833.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Aphelocheirus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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