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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » True Bugs (Heteroptera) » Pentatomomorpha » Pentatomoidea » Stink Bugs (Pentatomidae) » Predatory Stink Bugs (Asopinae) » Podisus » Podisus brevispinus

Species Podisus brevispinus

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Size · Range · Season · Works Cited
Brown Stink Bug eating larva - Podisus brevispinus Another stink bug - Podisus brevispinus Soldier Bug - Podisus brevispinus Predatory Stink Bug - Podisus brevispinus Late-season Podisus - Podisus brevispinus unknown bug on sand beach - Podisus brevispinus Podisus brevispinus predatory stink bug - Podisus brevispinus
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 Pentatomoidea
Family Pentatomidae (Stink Bugs)
Subfamily Asopinae (Predatory Stink Bugs)
Genus Podisus
Species brevispinus (Podisus brevispinus)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
=modestus auct. nec Dallas (until recently usually referred to as P. modestus)
"Kathy Phillips discovered that the type of Arma modesta Dallas is a specimen of P. maculiventris. Hence the species referenced by McPherson and other authors as P. modestus was actually unnamed. Phillips proposed the name brevispinus for the short abdominal spine." (D. B. Thomas, pers. comm. to =v=, 10/13/09); see also
Explanation of Names
Podisus brevispinus Phillips; Thomas (1992) attributes authorship to Phillips, but Rider (2012) attributes authorship to Thomas(1)
Size
8-11 mm(2)
Range
across Canada and n. US south to GA & NM(2)
Season
throughout the summer(2)
Works Cited
1.Annotated checklist of the Pentatomidae (Heteroptera) of Connecticut
O'Donnell J.E., Schaefer C.W. 2012. Great Lakes Entomologist 45: 220-234.
2.The Pentatomoidea (Hemiptera) of Northeastern North America
J.E. McPherson. 1982. Southern Illinois University Press.
Contributed by Boris Büche on 8 May, 2007 - 5:47am
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 13 April, 2013 - 11:36am

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