Familia Malcidae Stål, 1865

Family MALCIDAE Stål, 1865

I. M. Kerzhner

The family (for a long time considered as a subfamily of Lygaeidae) includes three genera and about 35 species. Most species are distributed in the Oriental Region and East Palaearctic, and a few in tropical Africa.

The morphology and phylogenetic relationships are discussed by Štys (1967) and Henry (1997b).

Malcidae are plant feeders; Chauliopinae and at least some Malcinae feed on legumes.

World catalogue: J.A. Slater (1964a) with additions by J.A. Slater & O'Donnell (1994). Palaearctic catalogue: Kerzhner (2001d). The Chinese species were reviewed by Zheng & Zou (1981a) and Zheng (1999).

 

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