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Pelocoris
Sign in to savePelocoris is a genus of creeping water bugs in the family Naucoridae found in the Americas. There are about 15 described species in Pelocoris.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 1,398
- Family
- Naucoridae
- Collections
- INHS, OMNH, PU, CU, NMSU, PSUC
- Recorded in
- United States, Nigeria, Brazil, Mexico
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- Naucoridae
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Pelocoris is a genus of creeping water bugs in the family Naucoridae found in the Americas. There are about 15 described species in Pelocoris.
==Species== These 15 species belong to the genus Pelocoris: Pelocoris balius La Rivers, 1970 Pelocoris biimpressus Montandon, 1898 Pelocoris binotulatus (Stål, 1860) Pelocoris bipunctulus (Herrich-Schäffer, 1853) Pelocoris carolinensis Torre-Bueno, 1907 Pelocoris femoratus (Palisot de Beauvois, 1820) Pelocoris magister Montandon, 1898 Pelocoris megistus La Rivers, 1969 Pelocoris nepaeformis (Fabricius, 1803) Pelocoris nitidus Montandon, 1898 Pelocoris poeyi (Guérin-Ménéville, 1838) Pelocoris politus Montandon, 1897 Pelocoris procurrens White, 1879 Pelocoris subflavus Montandon, 1898
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