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Macroveliidae

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Macroveliidae

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Macroveliidae is a family of macroveliid shore bugs in the order Hemiptera. There are at least four genera in Macroveliidae.

Species

FAMILY

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumArthropoda
  3. ClassInsecta
  4. OrderHemiptera
  5. FamilyMacroveliidae
Observations recorded511

Macroveliidae er en familie av insekter som tilhører tegene, en gruppe av nebbmunner. Nebbmunner har det til felles at munndelene er sugende og at de suger opp næringen. De lever sannsynligvis som rovdyr, der de suger ut kroppsvæske fra andre dyr. Det er bare kjent tre arter, alle fra vestkysten av Amerika.

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
18
Family
Macroveliidae
Collections
BYU, AM, MSUC
Recorded in
United States, South Africa, Lesotho

Wikidata facts

Instance of
taxon
Parent taxon
Hydrometroidea
Image
Oravelia pege AMNH ENT 00024168.jpg
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taxon name
Macroveliidae
taxon rank
family
topic's main category
Category:Macroveliidae
taxon common name
Macroveliid Shore Bugs
Commons category
Macroveliidae
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Encyclopedic overview

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  • Genera
  • References
  • Further reading

Macroveliidae is a family of macroveliid shore bugs in the order Hemiptera. There are at least four genera in Macroveliidae.

==Genera== These four genera belong to the family Macroveliidae: Chepuvelia China, 1963 Macrovelia Uhler, 1872 Oravelia Drake & Chapman, 1963 † Daniavelia Andersen, 1998

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Macroveliidae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.