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:
Melanopleurus amnigena (Brailovsky & Barrera, 1984) Melanopleurus aureus (Distant, 1893) Melanopleurus barrerai Brailovsky, 1979 Melanopleurus belfragei (Stal, 1874) (redcoat seed bug) Melanopleurus bicolor (Herrich-Schaeffer, 1850) Melanopleurus bistriangularis (Say, 1831) Melanopleurus brevis Brailovsky, 1975 Melanopleurus complicatus Brailovsky, 1975 Melanopleurus dearmasi (Alayo, 1973) Melanopleurus fuscosus Brailovsky, 1977 Melanopleurus inflatus Brailovsky, 1979 Melanopleurus maculicorium Maldonado-Capriles, 1974 Melanopleurus matucanae (Brailovsky, 1978) Melanopleurus nubilus Brailovsky, 1979 Melanopleurus perplexus Scudder, 1981 Melanopleurus pyrrhopterus (Stal, 1874) Melanopleurus tenor Brailovsky, 1979 Melanopleurus tetraspilus Stal, 1874 Melanopleurus vazquezae Brailovsky, 1979 Melanopleurus villai Brailovsky, 1979 Melanopleurus wygodzinskyi (Alayo, 1973)
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. DOI: 10.5962/bhl.part.772