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Species Phthiacnemia picta

Unknown Garden Bug? - Phthiacnemia picta

Phthiacnemia picta Top View - Phthiacnemia picta

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Hemiptera (True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies)

Suborder Heteroptera (True Bugs)

Infraorder Pentatomomorpha

Superfamily Coreoidea (Leatherbugs)

Family Coreidae (Leaf-footed Bugs)

Subfamily Coreinae

Tribe Anisoscelini

Genus Phthiacnemia

Species picta (Phthiacnemia picta)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Phthia picta

Explanation of Names

Phthiacnemia picta (Drury 1773)

picta 'painted'

Size

12-16 mm(1)

Identification

orange pattern highly variable(1)

Range

so US (CA-FL) to Argentina(2)(3)

Food

hosts: Solanum nigrum, sometimes other Solanaceae(1)

Works Cited

1.	Coreidae of Florida (Hemiptera, Heteroptera). Baranowski, R.M. and J.A. Slater. 1986. Arthropods of Florida and Neighboring Land Areas. Vol. 12, no. 630. viii + 82 pp.

2.	Catalog of the Heteroptera, or True Bugs of Canada and the Continental United States Thomas J. Henry, Richard C. Froeschner. 1988. Brill Academic Publishers.

3.	Livermore L.J.R., Lemaître V.A., Dolling W.R., Webb M.D. Coreoidea species file online. Version 5.0

Contributed by Boris Büche on 4 May, 2007 - 10:13am
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, drswanny, v belov, KenW
Last updated 7 July, 2019 - 4:46pm

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