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Species Banasa calva

Pennsylvania True Bug for ID - Banasa calva

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 Pentatomoidea

Family Pentatomidae (Stink Bugs)

Subfamily Pentatominae

Tribe Pentatomini

Genus Banasa

Species calva (Banasa calva)

Explanation of Names

Banasa calva (Say 1832)

calva 'bald'

Size

8.5‒12 mm(1)

Identification

see (2)(3); older sources misleading, image-based identification from habitus shots alone barely possible

Range

transcontinental, BC‒NB to AZ‒TX‒FL & C.America(4)

Food

various trees and shrubs(1)

Works Cited

1.	The Pentatomoidea (Hemiptera) of Northeastern North America J.E. McPherson. 1982. Southern Illinois University Press.

2.	A review of the Nearctic species of the genus Banasa Stål (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) Thomas D.B., Yonke T.R. 1981. J. Kans. Ent. Soc. 54: 233‒248.

3.	The Virginia species of Banasa, three decades later (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae) Hoffman R.L. 2005. Banisteria 25: 41‒44.

4.	A distributional synopsis of the Pentatomidae (Heteroptera) north of Mexico, including new state and provincial records Rider, D.A. and Swanson, D.R. 2021. Zootaxa, 5015(1), 1–69.

Contributed by tom murray on 31 December, 2007 - 4:50pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, Robin McLeod, Bbarnd, Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 2 October, 2023 - 5:29pm

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