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Subfamily Pentatominae

What type of immature beetle is this? Cucumber? - Cosmopepla lintneriana

Pentatomid with red patch on venter - Banasa sordida

Southern Green Stink Bug - Nezara viridula

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

Numbers

by far the largest pentatomid subfamily, with >160 spp. in ~40 genera in our area (14 tribes represented)(1); >3,300 spp. in ca. 620 genera of 42 tribes worldwide(2)

Range

worldwide

Works Cited

1.	American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico Ross H. Arnett. 2000. CRC Press.

2.	Rider D. (2006-) Pentatomoidea home page

Contributed by John R. Maxwell on 4 January, 2009 - 3:02pm
Additional contributions by Chuck Entz, v belov, Harsi S. Parker
Last updated 16 April, 2011 - 11:10am

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