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Genus Brachycarenus

Mating Rhopalids - Brachycarenus tigrinus - male - female ID for possible Rhopalid in CA? - Brachycarenus tigrinus Seed bug? - Brachycarenus tigrinus Orchard Bug - Brachycarenus tigrinus Scentless Plant Bug? - Brachycarenus tigrinus Yellow Dark Brown Bug - Brachycarenus tigrinus Wetlands bug - Brachycarenus tigrinus Plant bug - Brachycarenus tigrinus
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 Brachycarenus
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
sometimes treated as a subgenus of Rhopalus Schilling 1827
Explanation of Names
Brachycarenus Fieber 1860
Numbers
A single (adventive) species in our area(1), 2 spp. total(2)
Range
native to w. Palaearctic(2), adventive in NA (widespread in the west but also present in the east)
Works Cited
1.Two alien Heteroptera (Hemiptera) new to Canada
Scudder G.G.E. 2007. J. Ent. Soc. B.C. 104: 81–84.
2.Livermore L.J.R., Lemaître V.A., Dolling W.R., Webb M.D. Coreoidea species file online. Version 5.0
Contributed by Boris Büche on 3 May, 2007 - 5:38am
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 24 October, 2012 - 7:01pm

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