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Genus Ceraleptus

Ceraleptus from California - Ceraleptus pacificus

unknown small bug - Ceraleptus pacificus

Ceraleptus pacificus, I think? - Ceraleptus pacificus

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 Coreidae (Leaf-footed Bugs)

Subfamily Pseudophloeinae

Genus Ceraleptus

Explanation of Names

Ceraleptus Costa 1847

Numbers

4 spp. in our area(1), 9 total(2)

Identification

Key to spp.(3)

1 Lateral margins of anterior pronotal lobes either explanate or bearing a row of comblike projections >> 2

Lateral margin of anterior pronotal lobe neither explanate nor with a row of comblike projections, the pronotum rounding into the propleura >> 3

2 Anterolateral angles of pronotum projecting acutely cephalad to anterior margin of pronotal collar; length 9.9-10.4 mm >> probolus

Anterolateral angle of pronotum not projecting cephalad to anterior margin of pronotal collar; length 7.1-9.3 mm >> pacificus

3 Humeral angles of pronotum and posterolateral angles of connexival segments III to V with small but distinctly projecting angulations; length 10.1-11.6 mm >> denticulatus

Humeral angles and connexival segments without projecting angulations; length 9.4-11.1 mm >> americanus

Range

holarctic(2)

Works Cited

1.	Catalog of the Heteroptera, or True Bugs of Canada and the Continental United States Thomas J. Henry, Richard C. Froeschner. 1988. Brill Academic Publishers.

2.	Livermore L.J.R., Lemaître V.A., Dolling W.R., Webb M.D. Coreoidea species file online. Version 5.0

3.	The genus Ceraleptus Costa in the Western Hemisphere Froeschner R.C. 1963. J. Kans. Ent. Soc. 36: 109-113.

Contributed by Devin Carroll on 8 April, 2007 - 9:09am
Additional contributions by drswanny, v belov
Last updated 21 February, 2017 - 4:30pm

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