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Genus Neortholomus

Plant Bug - Neortholomus scolopax Alydinae sps? - Neortholomus scolopax Lygaeidae, dorsal - Neortholomus scolopax Scentless Plant Bug? - Neortholomus scolopax Insect - Neortholomus Female, Neortholomus - Neortholomus scolopax - female Female, Neortholomus nevadensis? - Neortholomus scolopax - female Orsillini? - Neortholomus scolopax
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 Lygaeoidea
Family Lygaeidae (Seed Bugs)
Subfamily Orsillinae
Tribe Orsillini
Genus Neortholomus
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
our spp. used to be treated in Ortholomus (now apparently considered restricted to the Old World)
Explanation of Names
Neortholomus Hamilton 1983
Numbers
5 spp. in our area(1), 9 total(2)(3)
Identification
key to spp. in (4)
Range
New World; in our area, throughout the US & so. Canada(2)
Works Cited
1.American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico
Ross H. Arnett. 2000. CRC Press.
2.The Lygaeidae of Florida (Hemiptera: Lygaeidae).
Slater & Baranowski. 1990. Florida Dept. of Ag. and Consumer Services, Gainesville. xv + 211 pp.
3.Dellapé P.M., Henry T.J. (2016) Lygaeoidea species file. Version 5.0
4.Neortholomus, a new genus of Orsillini (Hemiptera-Heteroptera: Lygaeidae: Orsillinae)
Steven W Hamilton. 1983. University of Kansas Science Bulletin 52(7): 197-234.