Brachycarenus

Brachycarenus[1] is a genus of bugs in the family Rhopalidae and the tribe Rhopalini, erected by Franz Xaver Fieber in 1860. The species Brachycarenus tigrinus is recorded from much of Europe (but also Korea and North America);[2] the British Isles,[3] where it was a fairly recent (2003) introduction.[4]

Brachycarenus
Brachycarenus tigrinus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Family: Rhopalidae
Subfamily: Rhopalinae
Tribe: Rhopalini
Genus: Brachycarenus
Fieber, 1860

Species

According to BioLib the following are included:[5]

  1. Brachycarenus languidus (Horváth, 1891)
  2. Brachycarenus tigrinus (Schilling, 1829)

References

  1. Fieber FX (1860) Die europäischen Hemiptera Halbflügler. (Rhynchota Heteroptera.) Gerold's Sohn, Wien.
  2. GBIF: Brachycarenus Fieber, 1860 (retrieved 16 April 2022)
  3. Ryan R (2012) An addendum to Southwood and Leston's Land and Water Bugs of the British Isles. British Journal of Entomology and Natural History 25(4): 205-215.
  4. British bugs: Brachycarenus tigrinus.
  5. BioLib.cz: genus Brachycarenus Fieber, 1860 (retrieved 10 April 2022)

See also

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