Biology:Oeciacus

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Short description: Genus of true bugs

Oeciacus
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Heteroptera
Family: Cimicidae
Subfamily: Cimicinae
Genus: Oeciacus
Stål, 1873

Oeciacus is a genus of bed bugs in the family Cimicidae. There are at least three described species in Oeciacus.[1][2][3]

Species

These three species belong to the genus Oeciacus:

  • Oeciacus hirundinis (Lamarck, 1816)
  • Oeciacus montandoni (Pericart, 1972)
  • Oeciacus vicarius (Horvath, 1912), the American swallow bug

References

Further reading

  • Péricart, J.; Golub, V. B. (1996). Catalogue of the Heteroptera of the Palaearctic Region, Vol. 2: Cimicomorpha I. The Netherlands Entomological Society. ISBN 978-90-71912-15-3. 
  • Schuh, Randall T.; Weirauch, Christiane; Wheeler, Ward C. (2009). "Phylogenetic relationships within the Cimicomorpha (Hemiptera: Heteroptera): a total-evidence analysis". Systematic Entomology 34 (1): 15–48. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3113.2008.00436.x. 

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