Species Harmostes fraterculus

Classification · Explanation of Names · Identification · Range · Print References · Works Cited

Scentless plant bug (maybe) - Harmostes fraterculus

scentless plant bug - Harmostes fraterculus

Harmostes sp. - Harmostes fraterculus - male - 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 Coreoidea (Leatherbugs)

Family Rhopalidae (Scentless Plant Bugs)

Subfamily Rhopalinae

Tribe Harmostini

Genus Harmostes

Species fraterculus (Harmostes fraterculus)

Explanation of Names

Harmostes fraterculus (Say 1832)

fraterculus 'little brother'

Identification

Separated from H. reflexulus in having the scape not distinctly surpassing the apex of the head and the speckled costal margin of the hemelytra

also, bicolored hind femora and parallel black lines in the hyaline portion of the wings

Range

e. US to ne. TX, absent from gulf coastal plains and FL - Map (1)(2)

Print References

(3)

Ratzlaff C.G. (2019) First record of Harmostes fraterculus (Say) (Hemiptera: Rhopalidae) in Canada. J. Ent. Soc. Ont. 150: 27-29 (Full text)

Wheeler Jr., A.G. and Miller, G.L. 1983. Harmostes fraterculus (Hemiptera: Rhopalidae): field history, laboratory rearing, and descriptions of immature stages. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 85: 426–434.

Works Cited

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

2.	Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)

3.	Rhopalus (Brachycarenus) tigrinus, recently established in North America, with a key to the genera and species of Rhopalidae... Hoebeke E.R., Wheeler A.G., Jr. 1982. Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. 84: 213‒224.

Contributed by drswanny on 18 August, 2011 - 2:12pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, Vox Sciurorum, v belov
Last updated 18 March, 2023 - 10:33am

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