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''Crompus'' is a genus of seed bugs in the family
Lygaeidae The Lygaeidae are a family in the Hemiptera (true bugs), with more than 110 genera in four subfamilies. The family is commonly referred to as seed bugs, and less commonly, milkweed bugs, or ground bugs. However, while many of the species feed on ...
. ''Crompus'' are
terrestrial Terrestrial refers to things related to land or the planet Earth. Terrestrial may also refer to: * Terrestrial animal, an animal that lives on land opposed to living in water, or sometimes an animal that lives on or near the ground, as opposed to ...
insects in the
Ischnorhynchinae Ischnorhynchinae is a subfamily of seed bugs in the family Lygaeidae. There are about 16 genera and more than 70 described species in Ischnorhynchinae. The members of this subfamily are small, terrestrial insects that typically translucent or tra ...
subfamily of seed bugs that are
endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found else ...
to Australia. There are three described species in ''Crompus''.


Species

These three species belong to the genus ''Crompus'': * '' Crompus nesiotes'' Ashlock, 1967 * '' Crompus oculatus'' Stål, 1874 * '' Crompus opacus'' Scudder, 1958


References


Further reading

* Lygaeidae Insects described in 1874 Insects of Australia Taxa named by Carl Stål {{pentatomomorpha-stub