The Thyreocoridae are a family of
shield bug
The Pentatomoidea are a superfamily of insects in the Heteroptera suborder of the Hemiptera order. As Hemiptera, they share a common arrangement of sucking mouthparts. The roughly 7000 species under Pentatomoidea are divided into 21 families (1 ...
s, known by
common name
In biology, a common name of a taxon or organism (also known as a vernacular name, English name, colloquial name, country name, popular name, or farmer's name) is a name that is based on the normal language of everyday life; and is often contrast ...
s that include negro bugs or ebony bugs. Historically, a few authors have called this family "Corimelaenidae" (e.g.), but the name Thyreocoridae, published in 1843, has nomenclatural priority over Corimelaenidae, published in 1872. Other classifications have placed them as a subfamily within the broad family
Cydnidae
Cydnidae are a family of pentatomoid bugs, known by common names including burrowing bugs or burrower bugs. As the common name would suggest, many members of the group live a subterranean lifestyle, burrowing into soil using their head and forel ...
.
Genera
There has been disagreement about how to treat subfamilies within the Thyreocoridae.
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Alkindus
Abū Yūsuf Yaʻqūb ibn ʼIsḥāq aṣ-Ṣabbāḥ al-Kindī (; ar, أبو يوسف يعقوب بن إسحاق الصبّاح الكندي; la, Alkindus; c. 801–873 AD) was an Arab Muslim philosopher, polymath, mathematician, physicia ...
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Distant, 1889
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Amyssonotum''
Horváth, 1919
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Carrabas''
Distant, 1908
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Corimelaena''
White, 1839
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Cydnoides''
Malloch, 1919
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Eumetopia''
Westwood, 1838
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Galgupha''
Amyot Amyot is a surname, and may refer to:
People:
* Charles Jean-Baptiste Amyot (1799–1866), French lawyer and entomologist
* Frank Amyot (1904–1962), Canadian Olympic gold medalist in Canoe racing
* Geneviève Amyot (1945–2000), Franco-Canadian ...
& Serville, 1843
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Godmania
''Godmania''is a genus of five species of flowering plants in the family Bignoniaceae, native to the new world tropics.
Species
*''Godmania aesculifolia
''Godmania aesculifolia'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Bignoniaceae, n ...
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Horváth, 1919
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Pericrepis''
Horváth, 1919
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Pruhleria''
McAtee & Malloch, 1933
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Strombosoma''
Amyot Amyot is a surname, and may refer to:
People:
* Charles Jean-Baptiste Amyot (1799–1866), French lawyer and entomologist
* Frank Amyot (1904–1962), Canadian Olympic gold medalist in Canoe racing
* Geneviève Amyot (1945–2000), Franco-Canadian ...
& Serville, 1843
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Thyreocoris''
Schrank, 1801
References
Shield bugs
Heteroptera families
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