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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » True Bugs (Heteroptera) » Pentatomomorpha » Lygaeoidea » Dirt-colored Seed Bugs (Rhyparochromidae) » Rhyparochrominae » Myodochini » Ptochiomera

Genus Ptochiomera

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · See Also · Works Cited
Ptochiomera nodosa? - Ptochiomera nodosa Ptochiomera nodosa Ptochiomera nodosa? - Ptochiomera nodosa Pennsylvania True Bug for ID - Ptochiomera nodosa BL Bug - Ptochiomera nodosa Ptochiomera nodosa Ptochiomera nodosa Ptochiomera nodosa
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 Lygaeoidea
Family Rhyparochromidae (Dirt-colored Seed Bugs)
Subfamily Rhyparochrominae
Tribe Myodochini
Genus Ptochiomera
Explanation of Names
Ptochiomera Say 1831(1)(2) (1832 in ITIS)
'feeble femur', may refer to profemora not being swollen, unlike in most myodochines
Numbers
A single species in our area(3)
Identification
Antennae swollen, A3 has the greatest diameter(1)
See Also
Sisamnes (antennae highly swollen, but A4 is the widest)(1)
Works Cited
1.A Generic Level Revision and Cladistic Analysis of the Myodochini of the World
Harrington, B. Jane. 1980. American Museum of Natural History.
2.The Lygaeidae of Florida (Hemiptera: Lygaeidae).
Slater & Baranowski. 1990. Florida Dept. of Ag. and Consumer Services, Gainesville. xv + 211 pp.
3.Catalog of the Heteroptera, or True Bugs of Canada and the Continental United States
Thomas J. Henry, Richard C. Froeschner. 1988. Brill Academic Publishers.
Contributed by Boris Büche on 17 April, 2007 - 7:27am
Additional contributions by v belov, onegunah
Last updated 22 January, 2014 - 10:33am

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