Pelocoris balius is a species of creeping water bug in the family Naucoridae. It is found in Florida.[1][2][3] In the Everglades, P. balius is locally common in shorter hydroperiod sites.[4]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hemiptera |
| Suborder: | Heteroptera |
| Family: | Naucoridae |
| Genus: | Pelocoris |
| Species: | P. balius
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| Pelocoris balius La Rivers, 1970
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Pelocoris balius was originally described as a subspecies of P. femoratus by Ira La Rivers in 1970,[5] but it was elevated to species by Robert Sites in 2015.[6]
References
edit- ^ a b "Pelocoris balius Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
- ^ "Pelocoris balius". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
- ^ "Pelocoris balius species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
- ^ Pintar, Matthew R.; Kline, Jeffrey L.; Trexler, Joel C. (2021). "The aquatic Heteroptera (Hemiptera) of marshes in the Florida Everglades". Florida Entomologist. 104 (4): 307–319. doi:10.1653/024.104.0408.
- ^ La Rivers, Ira (1970). "A new subspecies of Pelocoris femoratus (Palisot-Beauvois) from Florida (Hemiptera: Naucoridae)". Biological Society of Nevada Occasional Papers. 26: 1–4.
- ^ Sites, Robert W. (2015). "Pelocoris balius La Rivers (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Naucoridae) in Florida: New Status of an Enigmatic Saucer Bug". Zootaxa. 3915 (3): 433–438. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3915.3.8. PMID 25662135.
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