Curalium

Curalium
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Heteroptera
Infraorder: Cimicomorpha
Superfamily: Cimicoidea
Family: Curaliidae
Schuh, Weirauch & Henry, 2008
Genus: Curalium
Schuh, Weirauch & Henry, 2008
Species:
C. cronini
Binomial name
Curalium cronini
Schuh, Weirauch & Henry, 2008

Curalium is a genus of true bug that is the sole member of the insect family Curaliidae. Curalium contains a single species, Curalium cronini.[1]

Specimens of Curalium cronini have been found in northern Florida and Louisiana, in the southeast United States, from 1997 to 2007. Its physical and genetic characteristics are sufficiently different from related species to merit its placement into a new genus, Curalium, and a new family, Curaliidae.[2]

The males of Curalium cronini are very small bugs, about 1.5 mm in length, with a red body. No females are known to have been discovered.[2]

References

  1. ^ "Curalium cronini". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-12-10.
  2. ^ a b Randall T. Schuh; Christiane Weirauch; Thomas J. Henry; Susan E. Halbert (2008). "Curaliidae, a new family of Heteroptera (Insecta: Hemiptera) from the Eastern United States" (PDF). Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 101 (1): 20–29. doi:10.1603/0013-8746(2008)101[20:CANFOH]2.0.CO;2.


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