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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 » Sciocorini

Tribe Sciocorini

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Works Cited
Pentatomid 1 - Sciocoris microphthalmus Stink bug from Banff (2) 10.07.09 - Sciocoris microphthalmus Stink bug from Banff (2) 10.07.09 - Sciocoris microphthalmus flat brown bug - Sciocoris longifrons Sciocoris longifrons Barber - Sciocoris longifrons Sciocoris longifrons Barber - Sciocoris longifrons Sciocoris microphthalmus in New Brunswick - Sciocoris microphthalmus Sciocoris longifrons
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 Sciocorini
Explanation of Names
Sciocorini Amyot & Serville 1843
Numbers
2 spp. in a single genus in our area(1); ~130 spp. in 15 genera worldwide(2)
Identification
fairly small, orbicular, usually with expanded lateral margins of head, pronotum, and/or somewhat explanate corium(3)
Range
primarily Old World, 2 genera in the New World [one monotypic in W. Indies](3); in our area, 1 sp. in ne. NA + one very rare sp. in TX
Works Cited
1.American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico
Ross H. Arnett. 2000. CRC Press.
2.Rider D. (2006-) Pentatomoidea home page
3.The Heteroptera (Hemiptera) of North Dakota I: Pentatomomorpha: Pentatomoidea
Rider D.A. 2012. Great Lakes Entomologist 45: 312-380.
Contributed by v belov on 14 April, 2011 - 4:52pm
Last updated 17 December, 2014 - 6:52pm

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