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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » True Bugs (Heteroptera) » Pentatomomorpha » Pentatomoidea » Stink Bugs (Pentatomidae) » Pentatominae » Carpocorini » Mormidea » Mormidea lugens

Species Mormidea lugens

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Season · Life Cycle · Remarks · Internet References · Works Cited

Unknown colorful Beetle - 7-16-09 - Mormidea lugens

Mormidea lugens (Fabricius) - Mormidea lugens

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 Carpocorini

Genus Mormidea

Species lugens (Mormidea lugens)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

our only representative of the subgenus Melanochila Stål 1872

Explanation of Names

Mormidea lugens (Fabricius 1775)

Size

5.0-7.2 mm(1)

Identification

A small stinkbug, recognized by the bronzy coloration and white boundary around the scutellum(2)

Andrew Meeds reared this 5th instar

to this adult

Range

e NA (NS-FL to MB-WY-TX); Mexico, W. Indies(3)(4)

Habitat

Associated with grasses(2) but also found on many other plants(1)

Season

3.iv-2.xi in ne. NA(1)

Life Cycle

Overwinters as adults(1)

Remarks

Parasitized by the tachinid Cylindromyia lobata and used as nest provisions by the wasps Bicyrtes ventralis and B. fodiens(1)

Internet References

GBIF

iNaturalist

ITIS

Works Cited

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

2.	How to Know the True Bugs Slater, James A., and Baranowski, Richard M. 1978. Wm. C. Brown Company.

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

4.	The Heteroptera (Hemiptera) of North Dakota I: Pentatomomorpha: Pentatomoidea Rider D.A. 2012. Great Lakes Entomologist 45: 312-380.

Contributed by Tony DiTerlizzi on 28 July, 2005 - 7:55pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, Bbarnd, Mike Quinn, v belov, onegunah, Nathaniel Green
Last updated 23 February, 2021 - 3:45pm

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