Species Holcostethus abbreviatus

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Works Cited

Pentatomidae: Holcostethus abbreviatus - Holcostethus abbreviatus

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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 Holcostethus

Species abbreviatus (Holcostethus abbreviatus)

Explanation of Names

Holcostethus abbreviatus Uhler 1872

Size

8.0-9.5 mm(1)

Identification

unlike limbolarius, has the connexivum with alternating pattern of dark and light patches(2); tylus distinctly enclosed by the juga(3)

Range

w. NA (BC-CA-NM-ND) - Map (4)(5)(6)(7); common from the Pacific Coast to the Great Plains(2)

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

4.	Revision of the genus Holcostethus in North America (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) McDonald F.J.D. 1974. J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. 82: 245–258.

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

6.	Checklist of the Hemiptera of Canada and Alaska Maw, H.E.L., R.G. Foottit, K.G.A. Hamilton and G.G.E. Scudder. 2000. NRC Research Press.

7.	Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)

Contributed by v belov on 26 March, 2009 - 5:57pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, Mike Quinn
Last updated 19 July, 2023 - 4:07pm

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