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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » True Bugs (Heteroptera) » Pentatomomorpha » Leatherbugs (Coreoidea) » Leaf-footed Bugs (Coreidae) » Coreinae » Nematopini » Piezogaster » Piezogaster calcarator
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Squash Bug - Piezogaster calcarator - male
Copyright © 2006 Donna K Race

Squash Bug - Piezogaster calcarator - Male
Doddridge County, West Virginia, USA
September 14, 2004
This specimen was identified two years ago as an Archimerus alternatus...has something changed since then? I don't see it in the guide at all.

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Contributed by Donna K Race on 17 September, 2006 - 12:03pm
Last updated 17 September, 2006 - 1:59pm

Moved
Moved from Archimerus alternatus.
… Hannah Nendick-Mason, 17 September, 2006 - 1:59pm login or register to post comments

There's at least one other image (below)
but no page yet - I'll make one. Who identified yours? Was it someone on BugGuide? It looks like a good match, but I don't know this genus at all.

… Hannah Nendick-Mason, 17 September, 2006 - 1:06pm login or register to post comments

 
Eric Eaton
...identified the picture on my pbase gallery and suggested I submit it to Bug Guide. :)
… Donna K Race, 17 September, 2006 - 1:38pm login or register to post comments

 
Ok, here's an update
- trying to dig up more info on this genus I found an interesting comment on this one (below). It seems Archimerus has been reclassified. So I think all these belong in Piezogaster - maybe in species calcarata. I hope Eric will see and comment more on this - for now I'll move them to P. calcarata - easy enough to change if incorrect.

… Hannah Nendick-Mason, 17 September, 2006 - 1:57pm login or register to post comments

 
In Limbo:-)
I heard from an expert on Coreidae, and he told me that this species won't be in that genus for very long. It apparently defies lumping with existing genera, so perhaps it will have its very own eventually. For now, the name Hannah assigned is correct. Slater & Baranowski list it as Archimerus.
… Eric R. Eaton, 18 September, 2006 - 5:14pm login or register to post comments

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