Loxa melanita

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Pentatomoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Paraneoptera Superordo: Condylognatha Ordo: Hemiptera Subordo: Heteroptera Infraordo: Pentatomomorpha Superfamilia: Pentatomoidea

Familia: Pentatomidae
Subfamilia: Pentatominae
Tribus: Chlorocorini
Genus: Loxa
Species: Loxa melanita

Name

Loxa melanita Eger, 1978:238

• Type locality: Brazil, Mato Grosso

References

Primary references

• Eger, J.E. 1978. Revision of the Genus Loxa (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae). Journal of the New York Entomological Society 86(3): 224–259. JSTOR Reference page. 

Additional references

• Genevcius, B., Greve, C., Koehler, S., Simmons, R.B., Rider, D.A., Grazia, J. & Schwertner, C.F. 2021. Phylogeny of the stink bug tribe Chlorocorini (Heteroptera, Pentatomidae) based on DNA and morphological data: the evolution of key phenotypic traits. Systematic Entomology 46(2): 327–338. DOI: 10.1111/syen.12464 Reference page. 

Links

• Zicha, Ondřej et al. Loxa melanita Eger, 1978 – Taxon details on Biological Library (BioLib).
• ION

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