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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 » Halyini » Rough Stink Bugs (Brochymena) » Brochymena punctata

Species Brochymena punctata

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Remarks · Works Cited
What is this ? - Brochymena punctata Rough Stink Bug - Brochymena punctata Rough Stink Bug - Brochymena punctata Brochymena punctata Van Duzee - Brochymena punctata Brochymena quadripustulata? - Brochymena punctata Brochymena carolinensis? - Brochymena punctata Blunt-nosed Brochymena - Brochymena punctata Sheild Bug? on winged sumac - Brochymena punctata
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 Halyini
Genus Brochymena (Rough Stink Bugs)
Species punctata (Brochymena punctata)
Explanation of Names
Brochymena punctata Van Duzee 1909
Numbers
2 spp., both in our area(1)
Size
B. p. punctata ♂ 16.5‒18.1 mm, ♀ 15.4‒19.8 mm; B. p. pallida ♂ 12.5‒13.0 mm, ♀ 13.4‒15.1 mm(1)
Identification
Head roundly truncate anterior to subapical teeth, unlike in other congeners in ne US(2)
Range
se US (DC‒FL to MO‒OK‒TX); B. p. pallida confined to FL, elsewhere the nominate ssp. only(1); ?MA NJ (BG data)
Habitat
on black walnut and oaks(2)
Remarks
rather uncommon
Works Cited
1.Description of Parabrochymena, new genus, and redefinition and review of Brochymena Amyot and Audinet-Serville...
Larivière M.-C. 1992. Mem. Ent. Soc. Canada 163: 75 pp.
2.The Pentatomoidea (Hemiptera) of Northeastern North America
J.E. McPherson. 1982. Southern Illinois University Press.
Contributed by v belov on 22 January, 2010 - 3:25pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn
Last updated 31 August, 2023 - 4:43pm

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