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Chelinidea
Sign in to savethumb|Chelinidea vittiger, cactus coreid
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 269
- With media
- 2
- Family
- Coreidae
- Collections
- IIZD-UASLP, UCM, TAMU, NAUF, NMSU
- Recorded in
- Mexico, United States
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Encyclopedic overview
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thumb|Chelinidea vittiger, cactus coreid
Chelinidea is a genus of cactus bugs in the family Coreidae, and is the sole genus of the monotypic tribe Chelinideini. There are five described species in Chelinidea, found in Central and North America, where they typically feed on cacti in the genus Opuntia. Three of these species have been introduced into Australia.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Chelinidea” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.