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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) » Scentless Plant Bugs (Rhopalidae) » Rhopalinae » Rhopalini » Stictopleurus

Genus Stictopleurus

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Works Cited
Rhopalidae? - Stictopleurus punctiventris - male - female Stictopleurus punctiventris Tiny Heteroptera - Stictopleurus punctiventris Arhyssus sp. - Stictopleurus punctiventris Arhyssus lateralis ? - Stictopleurus punctiventris Stictopleurus punctiventris - Stictopleurus punctiventris Stictopleurus - Stictopleurus viridicatus
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 Rhopalini
Genus Stictopleurus
Explanation of Names
Stictopleurus Stål 1872
Numbers
5 spp. in our area(1), 24 total(2)
Identification
metapleura not divided by a sulcus, uniformly textured all over, and with tips invisible in dorsal view (unlike in similarly looking species of other genera); the abdomen often bears extended pale patterns
Range
Holarctic(2)
Works Cited
1.American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico
Ross H. Arnett. 2000. CRC Press.
2.Livermore L.J.R., Lemaître V.A., Dolling W.R., Webb M.D. Coreoidea species file online. Version 5.0
Contributed by tom murray on 8 December, 2006 - 10:07am
Additional contributions by Boris Bueche, v belov
Last updated 24 October, 2012 - 7:06pm

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