Species Harmostes angustatus

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Works Cited

Harmostes angustatus perchance? - Harmostes angustatus

Harmostes angustatus? - Harmostes angustatus

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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 angustatus (Harmostes angustatus)

Explanation of Names

Harmostes angustatus Van Duzee 1918

angustatus 'narrowed' Refers to the habitus of the species in comparison with its congeners.

Size

7-8 mm

Identification

The following characters were gleaned from (1) although not explicitly mentioned as being diagnostic or unique to H. angustatus:

Among the species of Harmostes found in the western United States (angustatus, dorsalis, and reflexulus), this species may be recognized by the nearly straight non-explanate lateral margins of the pronotum, the "tongue" of the scutellum being wider near the middle than at the base, and the generally hyaline inner cell of the corium (drswanny, June 2012).

The head and clypeus of this species are supposed to be distinctly convex in lateral view(1) as opposed to more or less flattened in the other U.S. species, but these details are rarely captured in photographs.

Range

sw US (sCA-AZ, wTX, UT) / nw. Mex. - Map (2)(3), most records s.CA-AZ

Works Cited

1.	Revision der Gattung Harmostes Burm., 1835 (Heteroptera, Rhopalidae) und einige Bemerkungen zu den Rhopalinae Göllner-Scheiding U. 1978. Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin 54: 257‒311.

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.	Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)

Contributed by drswanny on 29 June, 2012 - 5:59pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 17 March, 2023 - 9:05pm

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