Species Hoplistoscelis sericans

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Identification · Range · Print References · Works Cited

Hoplistoscelis - Hoplistoscelis sericans - female

Hoplistoscelis sericans Male? - Hoplistoscelis sericans - male

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 Cimicomorpha

Family Nabidae (Damsel Bugs)

Subfamily Nabinae

Tribe Nabini

Genus Hoplistoscelis

Species sericans (Hoplistoscelis sericans)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Hoplistoscelis sericans (Reuter), 1872

Nabis (Hoplistoscelis) deceptivus Harris, 1928

Size

6-8 mm

Identification

One of four Hoplistoscelis species in the eastern states:

H. pallescens (widespread) and H. confusa (southern states) are indistinguishable except for the male and female genitalia(1). H. hubbelli from Tennessee is also compared to H. pallescens (as N. (H.) sordidus). In all three, the profemur is at least 4 times as long as thick and in at least the first two species the scape is longer than the width of the head across the eyes. These conditions contrast the shorter scape and the shorter, thicker profemur of H. sericans.

The roseate tinge of the hemelytra may be a key visual feature for macropterous individuals of this species.

Range

Known from Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, Tennessee, and Texas (2).

Print References

Harris, H. M. 1928. A monographic study of the hemipterous family Nabidae as it occurs in North America. Entomologica Americana 9: 1-97.

Hussey, R. F. 1953. Some new and little-known American Hemiptera. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan 550: 1-12.

Works Cited

1.	Three new species, notes and new records of poorly known species, and an updated checklist for the North American Nabidae... Kerzhner I.M., Henry T.J. 2008. Proc. Ent Soc. Wash. 110: 988–1011.

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.

Contributed by drswanny on 22 November, 2011 - 3:47pm

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