{{Short description|Genus of true bugs}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2018}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Biologia Centrali-Americana - Chelinidea tabulata.jpg | image_caption = ''Chelinidea tabulata'', Prickly Pear Bug | taxon = Chelinidea | authority = Uhler, 1863 | display_parents = 2 }} thumb|''Chelinidea vittiger'', cactus coreid
'''''Chelinidea''''' is a genus of cactus bugs in the family Coreidae, and is the sole genus of the monotypic tribe '''Chelinideini'''. There are five described species in ''Chelinidea'', found in Central and North America, where they typically feed on cacti in the genus ''Opuntia''. Three of these species have been introduced into Australia.<ref name=gbif/><ref name=catlife/><ref name=bugguide/><ref name=Webb2020/>
==Species== These five species belong to the genus ''Chelinidea'': * ''Chelinidea canyona'' <small>Hamlin, 1923</small> (North and Central America, Australia) * ''Chelinidea hunteri'' <small>Hamlin, 1923</small> (North and Central America) * ''Chelinidea staffilesi'' <small>Herring, 1980</small> (Central America) * ''Chelinidea tabulata'' <small>(Burmeister, 1835)</small> (prickly pear bug) (North, Central, and South America, Australia) * ''Chelinidea vittiger'' <small>Uhler, 1863</small> (cactus coreid) (North and Central America, Australia)
==References== {{Reflist|refs= <ref name=gbif> {{Cite web| title=''Chelinidea'' | url=https://www.gbif.org/species/2049971 | website=GBIF | access-date=2021-11-12 }}</ref>
<ref name=bugguide> {{Cite web| title=''Chelinidea'' genus Information | url=https://bugguide.net/node/view/24814 | website=BugGuide.net | access-date=2021-11-12 }}</ref>
<ref name=catlife> {{Cite web| title=''Chelinidea'' Uhler, 1863 | url=https://www.catalogueoflife.org/data/taxon/8NN3W | website=Catalogue of Life | access-date=2021-11-12 }}</ref>
<ref name=Webb2020> {{Cite web | access-date = 2020-11-24 | title = genus Chelinidea Uhler, 1863 | date = 2020 | last1 = Webb | first1 = Nick | last2 = Eades | first2 = David C. | url = http://Coreoidea.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1190669 | website = Coreoidea species file online, Version 5.0 }}</ref> }}
==Further reading== * {{Cite book | title = Catalog of the Coreidae, or Leaf-Footed Bugs, of the New World | date = 2010 | last1 = Packauskas | first1 = Richard | series = Fort Hays Studies Series| volume = 71 | isbn = 978-0-615-23109-9 | url = https://scholars.fhsu.edu/fort_hays_studies_series/71/ }}
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Category:Coreidae genera Category:Chelinideini Category:Hemiptera of Central America Category:Taxa named by Philip Reese Uhler
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