Fracastorius

This article is about the genus of bugs. For the Italian physician, poet, and scholar, see Girolamo Fracastoro. For the lunar crater, see Fracastorius (crater).

Fracastorius is a genus of Asian seed bugs in the tribe Homoeocerini, erected by William Lucas Distant in 1901. It contains the single species Fracastorius cornutus which was originally recorded from Myanmar.^[1]

Fracastorius cornutus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hemiptera
Suborder:	Heteroptera
Family:	Coreidae
Subfamily:	Coreinae
Tribe:	Homoeocerini
Genus:	Fracastorius Distant, 1901
Species:	F. cornutus
Binomial name
Fracastorius cornutus Distant, 1902