Species Banasa dimiata

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Range · Food · Internet References

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 Pentatominae

Tribe Pentatomini

Genus Banasa

Species dimiata (Banasa dimiata)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Say's original spelling was dimiata, and up until 2000 I would have said this is correct (and have used it). But under the 2000 version of the Rules of nomenclature it seems to require that prevailing usage be maintained. I think the only published source that reverted to using dimiata was Henry & Froeschner. So I have gone back to using dimidiata. (Dr. Donald B. Thomas, Jr., pers.comm. to =v= on Sep. 15, 2009)

Range

Reported from the entire United States, southern Canada and northern Mexico by Thomas and Yonke (1981).

Food

Many different possible host plants are listed for this species, including birch (Betula spp.), bearberry (Arctostaphylos spp.) and chokeberry (Photinia spp.).

Internet References

Plant Host records - Pentatominae

Contributed by Lynette Schimming on 21 April, 2005 - 6:43am
Additional contributions by Hannah Nendick-Mason, ceiseman, v belov
Last updated 15 September, 2009 - 3:48pm

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