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This article is about genus of red bugs. For Romans named Scantius, see Scantia gens. Genus of true bugs

Scantius

Scantius aegyptius
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hemiptera
Suborder:	Heteroptera
Family:	Pyrrhocoridae
Genus:	Scantius Stål, 1866

Scantius is a genus of mostly African and European bugs in the family Pyrrhocoridae. There are at least two described species in Scantius.

Scantius aegyptius

Species

These species belong to the genus Scantius:

Scantius aegyptius (Linnaeus, 1758) (Mediterranean red bug)
Scantius forsteri (Fabricius, 1781)

Data sources: i = ITIS, c = Catalogue of Life, g = GBIF, b = Bugguide.net

References

^ "Scantius". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-04-07.
^ "Scantius Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-04-07.
"Scantius Overview". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 2018-04-07.
"ITIS, Integrated Taxonomic Information System". Retrieved 2018-04-07.
"Catalogue of Life". Retrieved 2018-04-07.

Further reading

Arnett, Ross H. Jr. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico (2nd ed.). CRC Press. ISBN 0-8493-0212-9.
Aukema, Berend; Rieger, Christian, eds. (2001). Catalogue of the Heteroptera of the Palaearctic Region, vol. 4: Pentatomorpha I: Aradidae, Lygaeidae, Piesmatidae, Malcidae, Berytidae, Colobathristidae, Largidae, Pyrrhocoridae. The Netherlands Entomological Society. ISBN 90-71912-21-3.
Blatchley, W.S. (1926). Heteroptera, or true bugs of eastern North America, with especial reference to the faunas of Indiana and Florida. Nature Publishing. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.6871.
Henry, Thomas J.; Froeschner, Richard C., eds. (1988). Catalog of the Heteroptera, or True Bugs, of Canada and the Continental United States. E. J. Brill. ISBN 0-916846-44-X.
Walker, Francis (1871). Catalogue of the Specimens of Hemiptera Heteroptera in the Collection of the British Museum, pt. IV. British Museum. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.9254.

External links

Media related to Scantius at Wikimedia Commons
Data related to Scantius at Wikispecies

Taxon identifiers
Scantius	Wikidata: Q21334128 Wikispecies: Scantius BOLD: 965638 BugGuide: 299938 Fauna Europaea (new): 45f1a8b7-24fa-495f-9c53-e9d151bc4e52 GBIF: 9144495 iNaturalist: 210138 NCBI: 1577218 Open Tree of Life: 3473346 Plazi: 7758064D-F466-E334-2CA0-1E16FE65FAA7

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