| Gelastocoris Temporal range:   | |
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| Gelastocoris oculatus | |
| Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota | 
| Kingdom: | Animalia | 
| Phylum: | Arthropoda | 
| Class: | Insecta | 
| Order: | Hemiptera | 
| Suborder: | Heteroptera | 
| Family: | Gelastocoridae | 
| Genus: | Gelastocoris Kirkaldy, 1897  | 
Gelastocoris is a genus of toad bugs in the family Gelastocoridae. There are more than 20 described species in Gelastocoris.[1][2][3]

Gelastocoris oculatus
Species
These 23 species belong to the genus Gelastocoris:
- Gelastocoris amazonensis Melin, 1929
 - Gelastocoris andinus Melin, 1929
 - Gelastocoris apureensis Melin, 1929
 - Gelastocoris barberi Torre-Bueno
 - Gelastocoris bolivianus De Carlo, 1954
 - Gelastocoris bufo (Herrich-Schäffer, 1840)
 - Gelastocoris curiosus Poinar & Brown, 2016
 - Gelastocoris decarloi Estévez & Schnack, 1977
 - Gelastocoris flavus (Guérin-Méneville, 1835)
 - Gelastocoris fuscus Martin, 1929
 - Gelastocoris hungerfordi Melin, 1929
 - Gelastocoris major Montandon, 1910
 - Gelastocoris martinezi De Carlo, 1954
 - Gelastocoris monrosi De Carlo, 1959
 - Gelastocoris nebulosus (Guérin-Méneville, 1844)
 - Gelastocoris oculatus (Fabricius, 1798) (big-eyed toad bug)
 - Gelastocoris paraguayensis De Carlo, 1954
 - Gelastocoris peruensis Melin, 1929
 - Gelastocoris quadrimaculatus (Guérin-Méneville, 1844)
 - Gelastocoris rotundatus Champion, 1901
 - Gelastocoris vandamepompanoni Boulard & Jauffret, 1984
 - Gelastocoris vicinus Champion, 1901
 - Gelastocoris viridis Todd, 1955
 
Extinct species
- †Gelastocoris curiosus Poinar and Brown 2016[4] Burmese amber, Myanmar, Cenomanian
 
References
- ↑ "Gelastocoris Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
 - ↑ "Gelastocoris". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
 - ↑ "Gelastocoris genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
 - ↑ Poinar, George; Brown, Alex E. (August 2016). "Toad bugs (Hemiptera: Gelastocoridae) in Myanmar amber". Cretaceous Research. 63: 39–44. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2016.02.013. ISSN 0195-6671.
 
Further reading
- Todd, Edward L. (1955). "A Taxonomic Revision of the Family Gelastocoridae (Hemiptera)". The University of Kansas Science Bulletin. 37 (11): 277–475. doi:10.5962/bhl.part.1590. hdl:1808/26411.
 - Aukema, Berend; Rieger, Christian, eds. (1995). Catalogue of the Heteroptera of the Palaearctic Region, Vol. 1: Enicocephalomorpha, Dipsocoromorpha, Nepomorpha, Gerromorpha and Leptopodomorpha. The Netherlands Entomological Society. ISBN 978-90-71912-12-2.
 
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