Species Podisus brevispinus

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Brown Stink Bug eating larva - Podisus brevispinus

Predatory stink bug - Podisus brevispinus

Podisus and ¿pterophorid? larva - Podisus brevispinus

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

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

Suborder Heteroptera (True Bugs)

Family Pentatomidae (Stink Bugs)

Subfamily Asopinae (Predatory Stink Bugs)

Genus Podisus

Species brevispinus (Podisus brevispinus)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

=modestus auct. nec Dallas

Until recently usually referred to as P. modestus.

"Kathy Phillips discovered that the type of Arma modesta Dallas is a specimen of P. maculiventris. Hence the species referenced by McPherson and other authors as P. modestus was actually unnamed. Phillips proposed the name brevispinus for the short abdominal spine." (D. B. Thomas, pers. comm. to =v=, 10/13/09)

Contributed by Boris Büche on 8 May, 2007 - 5:47am
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 13 October, 2009 - 4:06pm

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