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Species Mecidea major

Stink Bug - Mecidea major Narrow Stinkbug? - Mecidea major Narrow Stinkbug? - Mecidea major Creature on silver bluestem 1529 - Mecidea major Pentatomidae, abdomen, ventral - Mecidea major White bug - Mecidea major Lone Insect - Mecidea major Narrow Stink Bug, #2, ventral - Mecidea major - female
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 Mecideini
Genus Mecidea (Narrow Stink Bug)
Species major (Mecidea major)
Explanation of Names
Mecidea major Sailer 1952
Size
9.5-12.7 mm(1)
Identification
spiracles often darkened (1)

males have elongated second antennal segment, longer than the third ant. seg. - key to spp. (modified from Sailer 1952)
Range
c. US to AZ (so. IL-KS to TX-AZ)(2) to Nicaragua(3).
Possibly established in parts of Florida: Previously known from a single 1988 record, specimens from a population of Mecidea collected from cultivated Cenchrus setaceus in St. Petersburg was submitted to FSCA and identified as this species. More surveying may reveal the extent of this species' establishment in Florida.) -AWM
Season
Apr-Jan, peak Jul-Oct(1)
Food
grass feeders including sideoats grama + some records on Asteraceae(4)
Print References
Sailer, R.I. 1952. A review of the stink bugs of the genus Mecidea. Proc. U.S. Nat. Museum 102(3309): 471-505.
Works Cited
1.The Pentatomoidea (Hemiptera) of Northeastern North America
J.E. McPherson. 1982. Southern Illinois University Press.
2.Catalog of the Heteroptera, or True Bugs of Canada and the Continental United States
Thomas J. Henry, Richard C. Froeschner. 1988. Brill Academic Publishers.
3.Pentatomidae (Heteroptera) of Honduras: a checklist with description of a new ochlerine genus
Arismendi N., Thomas D.B. 2003. Insecta Mundi 17: 219-236.
4.Pentatomoidea Host Index