MEGARIDIDAE McATEE AND MALLOCH

Coscarón, María Del Carmen, 2017, A catalogue of the Heteroptera (Hemiptera) or true bugs of Argentina, Zootaxa 4295 (1), pp. 1-432 : 114

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4295.1.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:A7816444-BBA4-4E51-A5EC-63FE95D71051
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/1D1F87EE-BB59-E85C-11A7-416FFC64FF7C
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	MEGARIDIDAE McATEE AND MALLOCH
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FAMILY MEGARIDIDAE McATEE AND MALLOCH

JOCELIA GRAZIA, CRISTIANO F. SCHWERTNER AND MARIA DEL CARMEN COSCARÓN

Recognized as a subfamily of Pentatomidae by McAtee and Malloch (1928a), this group was raised to family status by McDonald (1979). This family is exclusively Neotropical, and it is monogeneric including 16 species in the genus Megaris Stål. Two species have been recorded from Argentina so far.