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Melanopleurus

genus of insects

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 18, 2023
Entity authorityQ10580524 ↗
Source-derived summary

Melanopleurus (meaning "black side") is a genus of seed bugs in the family Lygaeidae. There are more than 20 described species in the genus Melanopleurus.

Species

These 21 species belong to the genus Melanopleurus:

References

Further reading

Slater, Alex. (August 30, 1992). A genus level revision of western hemisphere Lygaeinae (Heteroptera: Lygaeidae) with keys to species. The University of Kansas Science Bulletin 55(1). pp. 21-22.

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“Melanopleurus” enters the record as genus of insects. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Melanopleurus, genus and insects can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewUseful for establishing the present vocabulary of the subject while preserving a route back to the evidence on which that vocabulary rests. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1992—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Melanopleurus, genus and insects.
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“Melanopleurus” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Melanopleurus, genus and insects provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Stable identifiers, scientific names and standards terminology offer the best bridge between this overview and specialist evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 18, 2023. The linked authority identifier is Q10580524. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1992.

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This entry incorporates text from “Melanopleurus” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.