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Species Thasus neocalifornicus - Giant Mesquite Bug

Identify this south eastern Arizona beetle please. - Thasus neocalifornicus

Giant Mesquite Bug - Thasus neocalifornicus (pair) - Thasus neocalifornicus - male - female

Black orange bug - Thasus neocalifornicus

Nymph, Thasus neocalifornicus? - Thasus neocalifornicus

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 Coreoidea (Leatherbugs)

Family Coreidae (Leaf-footed Bugs)

Subfamily Coreinae

Tribe Nematopini

Genus Thasus

Species neocalifornicus (Giant Mesquite Bug)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

≡Pachylis neocalifornicus

Explanation of Names

Thasus neocalifornicus Brailovsky & Barrera 1995

Identification

Adult & nymph

Range

sw.US (s.CA‒w.TX) & Mexico(1)

Food

The green pods of Mesquite (Prosopis spp.), notably the non-native P. velutina and the native P. glandulosa

Life Cycle

Eggs are posited in chains of ~12 under stems, or loose bark, of host plants

Print References

Forbes G., Schaefer C.W. (2003) Further notes on the genus Thasus (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Coreidae). J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. 111: 235‒241

Works Cited

1.	Catalog of the Heteroptera, or True Bugs of Canada and the Continental United States Thomas J. Henry, Richard C. Froeschner. 1988. Brill Academic Publishers.

Contributed by john and jane balaban on 13 June, 2005 - 6:58pm
Additional contributions by John VanDyk, Hartmut Wisch, Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 31 January, 2024 - 10:53pm

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