Megymenum is a genus of Asian and Australian shield bugs in the family Dinidoridae and typical of the subfamily Megymeninae. It was erected by Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville in 1831[2] and species have been recorded from India through to Japan, Indochina, Malesia, New Guinea and Australia.[1]
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| Megymenum dentatum | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hemiptera |
| Suborder: | Heteroptera |
| Family: | Dinidoridae |
| Subfamily: | Megymeninae |
| Genus: | Megymenum Guérin-Méneville, 1831 |
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Description
editSpecies in genus Megymenum have extended or greatly expanded pronotal margins (as in the type species M. dentatum) with a rounded scutellum: characteristic of the Dinidoridae. In most species the second valvifers are reduced, lightly sclerotised, and fused in the middle. Some species have reduced hemelytra and are flightless.[3]
Species
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The following species are currently (as of July 2024[update]) accepted in the genus:[1]
- Megymenum affine Boisduval, 1835
- Megymenum anacanthum Vollenhoven, 1868
- Megymenum aruensis Kocorek & Danielczok, 2002
- Megymenum basale Walker, 1868
- Megymenum brevicorne (Fabricius, 1787)
- Megymenum confusum Kocorek & J.Lis, 2000
- Megymenum dentatum Guérin-Méneville, 1831 - type species
- Megymenum distanti Kocorek & Ghate, 2012
- Megymenum dohrni J.Lis, 1990
- Megymenum gracilicorne Dallas, 1851
- Megymenum lisi Kocorek, 2000
- Megymenum megaspinosum Kocorek, 2000
- Megymenum mekongum Distant, 1921
- Megymenum obliquum Schouteden, 1913
- Megymenum parallelum Vollenhoven, 1868
- Megymenum pratti Distant, 1911
- Megymenum quadratum Vollenhoven, 1868
- Megymenum rectangulatum Breddin, 1901
- Megymenum salebrosum J.Lis, 1992
- Megymenum semivestitum Vollenhoven, 1868
- Megymenum severini Bergroth, 1892
- Megymenum spinosum (Burmeister, 1834)
- Megymenum sumatranum Kocorek & J.Lis, 2008
- Megymenum tuberculatum Hemala, Kocorek & Lis, 2020
References
edit- ^ a b c "Megymenum Guérin-Méneville, 1831". Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 29 July 2024.
- ^ Guérin FÉ (1831) Insectes, pls.12, 14bis. In: L.I. Duperrey, Voyage autour du monde, exécuté par ordre du Roi, sur la corvette de sa Majesté, La Coquille, pendant les années 1822, 1823, 1824 et 1825.; Histoire naturelle. Zoologie, par M. Lesson ; Insectes, par F.-E. Guérin, planches 1-21 (1830-1831); text pp.57-302 (1838). Arthus Bertrand, Paris.
- ^ Randall T. Schuh; James Alexander Slater (1995). True Bugs of the World (Hemiptera:Heteroptera): Classification and Natural History. Cornell University Press. pp. 225–. ISBN 0-8014-2066-0.
