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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » True Bugs (Heteroptera) » Pentatomoidea » Stink Bugs (Pentatomidae) » Predatory Stink Bugs (Asopinae)

Subfamily Asopinae - Predatory Stink Bugs

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Identification · Range · Food · Works Cited
Beautiful Pentatomid - Stiretrus anchorago Unknown Stink Bug - Podisus maculiventris Anchor Stink Bug - Stiretrus anchorago Two-spotted Stink Bug - Perillus bioculatus Burrowing bug nymphs? - Euthyrhynchus floridanus Tylospilus acutissimus Stinkbug on the Ledges - Apoecilus cynicus predatory stink bug and prey - Podisus
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Hemiptera (True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies)
Suborder Heteroptera (True Bugs)
Superfamily Pentatomoidea
Family Pentatomidae (Stink Bugs)
Subfamily Asopinae (Predatory Stink Bugs)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
no generally accepted tribal arrangement exists
Numbers
35 spp. in 16 genera in our area(1), ~300 spp. in 66 genera worldwide(2)
Identification
"In identifying asopines it helps to be color blind" (D.B. Thomas)
Range
worldwide and throughout NA(1)
Food
Predatory, unlike other stink bugs
Works Cited
1.American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico
By Ross H. Arnett
2.Pentatomoidea Home page, by Dr. David Rider
Contributed by John R. Maxwell on 4 January, 2009 - 2:59pm
Additional contributions by Vox Sciurorum, v belov
Last updated 14 April, 2011 - 4:48pm

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