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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » True Bugs (Heteroptera) » Pentatomomorpha » Lygaeoidea » Dirt-colored Seed Bugs (Rhyparochromidae) » Plinthisinae

Subfamily Plinthisinae

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Remarks · Works Cited
Bug nymph with enlarged profemora? - Plinthisus martini Tiny Hemiptera - Plinthisus brevipennis Plinthisus? - Plinthisus Plinthisus martini? - Plinthisus martini Plinthisus martini? - Plinthisus martini Lygaeoidea? - Plinthisus Dirt-colored Seed Bug - Plinthisus brevipennis Plinthisus compactus - female
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 Lygaeoidea
Family Rhyparochromidae (Dirt-colored Seed Bugs)
Subfamily Plinthisinae
Explanation of Names
Plinthisinae Slater & Sweet 1961
Numbers
6 spp. (all Plinthisus) in our area, close to 100 spp. worldwide, all but one in Plinthisus(1)
Range
worldwide, with greatest diversity (~85%) in the Palaearctic and Afrotropical Regions(2)
Remarks
a significant share of species are flightless; brachypterous condition very common(2)
Works Cited
1.Dellapé P.M., Henry T.J. (2016) Lygaeoidea species file. Version 5.0
2.Zoological catalogue of Australia: Hemiptera: Heteroptera (Pentatomomorpha)
Cassis G., Gross G.F. 2002. CSIRO Publishing, 751 pp.
Contributed by v belov on 16 August, 2016 - 1:43pm
Last updated 13 October, 2023 - 6:26pm

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