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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) » Pentatominae » Halyini » Rough Stink Bugs (Brochymena) » Four-humped Stink Bug (Brochymena quadripustulata)

Species Brochymena quadripustulata - Four-humped Stink Bug

Classification · Other Common Names · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Food · See Also · Print References · Works Cited
Stink Bug - Brochymena quadripustulata Rough Stink Bug - Brochymena quadripustulata BG3130 E9907h - Brochymena quadripustulata Brochymena sp. ? - Brochymena quadripustulata Stinkbug - Probably Brochymena quadripunctata - Brochymena quadripustulata Brochymena quadripustulata Brochymena quadripustulata? - Brochymena quadripustulata Might this be a Brochymena quadripustulata then ? - Brochymena quadripustulata
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 Pentatominae
Tribe Halyini
Genus Brochymena (Rough Stink Bugs)
Species quadripustulata (Four-humped Stink Bug)
Other Common Names
Rough Stink Bug
Explanation of Names
Brochymena quadripustulata (Fabricius 1775)
epithet refers to the four pronotal callosities
Size
♂ 12.4-16.0 mm, ♀ 14.6-18.6 mm(1)
Identification
juga exceed tylus, usually meet/overlap in front of it (may be very difficult to distinguish from B. sulcata)
Range
the most widespread member of the genus: transcontinental in the north (AK-NS), US (ME-FL to the Rockies) to ne Mexico; most abundant north of 40°N(1)(2)(3)
widely dist., most common across e. NA - Map (4)
Food
recorded hosts include members of 18 plant families(5)
See Also
may be very difficult to distinguish from B. sulcata
Print References
Cuda J.P., McPherson J.E. (1976) Life history and laboratory rearing of Brochymena quadripustulata with descriptions of immature stages and additional notes on Brochymena arborea (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae). Ann. Ent. Soc. Am. 69: 977-983.
Works Cited
1.Description of Parabrochymena, new genus, and redefinition and review of Brochymena Amyot and Audinet-Serville...
Larivière M.-C. 1992. Mem. Ent. Soc. Canada 163: 75 pp.
2.Checklist of the Hemiptera of Canada and Alaska
Maw, H.E.L., R.G. Foottit, K.G.A. Hamilton and G.G.E. Scudder. 2000. NRC Research Press.
3.Alaskan Heteroptera (Hemiptera): New records, associated data, and deletions
Scudder G.G.E., Sikes D.S. 2014. Zootaxa 3852: 373-381.
4.Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
5.Pentatomoidea Host Index
Contributed by Cotinis on 14 November, 2007 - 10:41am
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 22 June, 2023 - 5:30pm

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