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Genus Perillus

Two-spotted Stink Bug Nymph - Perillus bioculatus

Red marked Stink Bug - Perillus bioculatus

Stink Bug - Perillus strigipes - male - female

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 Perillus

Numbers

Seven North American species, according to Nomina Nearctica.

Food

Adults are predatory. P. bioculatus is used as a biological control of the Colorado Potato Beetle, Leptinotarsa decemlineata (Chrysomelidae).

See Also

Colorado Potato Beetle (1)

Print References

Slater, p. 46 (2)

Internet References

Nomina Nearctica

P. bioculatus for biocontrol from University of Wisconsin

Insects of Cedar Creek--Perillus circumcinctus

Works Cited

1.	Colorado Potato Beetle

2.	How to Know the True Bugs By Slater, James A., and Baranowski, Richard M.

Contributed by Joel Kits on 24 March, 2005 - 9:17am
Additional contributions by cotinis
Last updated 2 November, 2006 - 6:10pm

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