Chamus

{{Short description|Genus of insects}} {{about|the genus of Mirid bugs|the people living near Lake Baringo, Kenya|Ilchamus people}} {{Automatic taxobox |image = |image_caption = |display_parents = 3 |taxon = Chamus |authority = Distant, 1904 |synonyms = }}

'''''Chamus''''' is a genus of Miridae or capsid bugs in the tribe Dicyphini and subtribe Odoniellina. Species can be found in central and southern Africa, with the type ''C. wealei'' first described by Distant in 1904.<ref name = Distant>Distant WL (1904) Rhynchotal Notes. XXI. Heteroptera, fam. Capsidae (Part II). ''Annals and Magazine of Natural History'' (7)13: 194-206.</ref>

==Species== The Global Biodiversity Information Facility lists:<ref name = GBIF>[https://www.gbif.org/species/4778253 Global Biodiversity Information Facility: ''Chamus'' Distant, 1904 (retrieved 9 November 2021)]</ref> # ''Chamus conradsianus'' <small>Schouteden, 1942</small> # ''Chamus incertus'' <small>Reuter & Poppius, 1911</small> # ''Chamus mefisto'' <small>Reuter & Poppius, 1911</small> # ''Chamus overlaeti'' <small>Schouteden, 1942</small> # ''Chamus reuteri'' <small>Poppius, 1914</small> # ''Chamus schroederi'' <small>Poppius, 1912</small> # ''Chamus wealei'' <small>Distant, 1904</small> - '''type species'''<ref name = Distant/> (synonym ''C. ghesquierei'' Schouteden, 1942<ref name=GBIF/>)

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Category:Miridae genera Category:Hemiptera of Africa Category:Dicyphini Category:Taxa named by William Lucas Distant