Species Brachycarenus tigrinus

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Food · Remarks · Works Cited

ID for possible Rhopalid in CA? - Brachycarenus tigrinus

Rhopalus tigrinus - Brachycarenus tigrinus

unknown Hemipteran - Brachycarenus tigrinus

Rhopalidae, Scentless Plant Bug, lateral - 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

Species tigrinus (Brachycarenus tigrinus)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Rhopalus tigrinus

Explanation of Names

Brachycarenus tigrinus (Schilling 1829)

Size

♂ 5.9-6.6 mm, ♀ 6.1-7.1 mm(1)

Identification

Metapleura divided, their tips visible from above. Abdominal pattern characteristic: Connexivia pale, remainder of abdomen black, with segment 7 with a pair of apical and basal pale spots, segment 6 basal spots only, segments 4+5 with common median band. Head and pronotum spotted with black.

Diagnostic features summarized in(1)

Range

native to the Palaearctic, adventive in our area; established in 5 eastern and many western states(2)(3), and in BC(1), with the combined range from the Pacific east to NE-TX (MT image(4) may represent new state record)

Food

polyphagous, but preferred hosts are Brassicaceae (incl. occasional native spp.)(2)

Remarks

earliest record in our area: NJ 1977(2)

Works Cited

1.	Two alien Heteroptera (Hemiptera) new to Canada Scudder G.G.E. 2007. J. Entomol. Soc. Brit. Columbia 104: 81–84.

2.	First records of a Eurasian scentless plant bug, Rhopalus tigrinus (Hemiptera: Rhopalidae), from New Mexico, Texas, and Utah Wheeler A.G., Jr. 2004. The Southwestern Naturalist 49: 406-408.

3.	Additional provincial and state records for Heteroptera (Hemiptera) in Canada and the United States Scudder G.G.E. 2012. J. Ent. Soc. Brit. Columbia 109: 55-69.

4.	spotted scentless plant bug

Contributed by Boris Büche on 3 May, 2007 - 5:38am
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, v belov
Last updated 17 January, 2014 - 12:27pm

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