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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » True Bugs (Heteroptera) » Pentatomoidea » Stink Bugs (Pentatomidae) » Pentatominae » Carpocorini » Euschistus

Genus Euschistus

Classification · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Season · Food · See Also · Works Cited
True Bug ? Beetle ? - Euschistus servus Stink Bug - Euschistus servus Stink Bug - Euschistus servus a kind of Euschistus - Euschistus tristigmus Stink Bug nymph - Euschistus Stink Bug - Euschistus obscurus Euschistus - Euschistus biformis Stink Bug - Euschistus obscurus
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Hemiptera (True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies)
Suborder Heteroptera (True Bugs)
Superfamily Pentatomoidea
Family Pentatomidae (Stink Bugs)
Subfamily Pentatominae
Tribe Carpocorini
Genus Euschistus
Numbers
20 spp. in our area(1); 9 spp. listed for NC(2)
Size
8-15 mm
Identification
Rear tibia grooved above:

Guide to c. TX spp. in(3)
Range
Much of NA
Habitat
Woodlands, cultivated land, orchards
Season
E. servus occurs throughout year in the south
Food
plant juices; may be destructive to crops, esp. fruits
See Also
Menecles, Podisus [superficially similar, note different structure of beak(4)]
Works Cited
1.American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico
By Ross H. Arnett
2.NCSU insect collection species inventory database
3.A visual guide for identification of Euschistus spp. (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) in central Texas
By JF Esquivel, RM Anderson, and RE Droleskey
4.How to Know the True Bugs
By Slater, James A., and Baranowski, Richard M.
Contributed by Cotinis on 20 September, 2004 - 6:17pm
Additional contributions by Bbarnd, v belov
Last updated 19 October, 2011 - 9:28am

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