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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) » Pentatominae » Mecideini » Narrow Stink Bug (Mecidea)

Genus Mecidea - Narrow Stink Bug

Classification · Numbers · Identification · Range · Food · Remarks · Works Cited
Stink Bug - Mecidea Mecidea Mecidea sp - Mecidea Mecidea sp - Mecidea Stinkbug Nymph 2 - Mecidea Narrow Stinkbug? - Mecidea Hemiptera Nymph Mecidea major? - Mecidea Hemiptera Nymph Mecidea major? - Mecidea
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 Pentatominae
Tribe Mecideini
Genus Mecidea (Narrow Stink Bug)
Numbers
3 spp. (of which one adventive) in our area, 4 spp. in the New World, 19 spp. total(1)
Identification
can be recognized within the Pentatomidae by the presence on the abdominal venter of a longitudinal band of striations on the basal 3 or more segments(1)
key to spp. in(1)
Range
arid tropical and adjacent temperate regions of the world except Australasian Region; in our area: M. major IL-KS to TX-AZ; M. minor IA-SD to TX-CA; M. longula FL (native to West Indies)(1)
Food
grass feeders; hosts of the New World spp. include various Poaceae + some records on Asteraceae(2)
Remarks
the only New World representative of the tribe Mecideini(1)
Works Cited
1.Mecidea longula Stål (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae: Pentatominae: Mecideini) is established in south Florida
By J.E. Eger, T.T. Dobbs
2.Pentatomoidea Host Index
Contributed by Chris Wirth on 19 October, 2005 - 2:54pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 21 November, 2011 - 8:42am

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