| Curalium | |
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Scientific classification 
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| 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
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| Binomial name | |
| Curalium cronini Schuh, Weirauch & Henry, 2008
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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[edit]
- ^ "Curalium cronini". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-12-10.
- ^ 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.