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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 » Carpocorini » Euschistus » Brown Stink Bug (Euschistus servus)

Species Euschistus servus - Brown Stink Bug

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · Remarks · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Waxy-white stinkbugs - Euschistus servus

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 Carpocorini

Genus Euschistus

Species servus (Brown Stink Bug)

Explanation of Names

Euschistus servus (Say 1832)

servus = 'slave'

Size

11-15 mm(1)

Identification

Range

mostly e. NA to AZ, but other scattered w. NA records(2)(1)

Season

mostly: May-Nov (BG data)(1)

Food

extremely polyphagous, host records include ~70 spp. in 25 families(3)

Remarks

the most economically important species of the genus in our area, may damage soybean, corn, cotton, alfalfa, sorghum, fruit, pecan, and tobacco(4)

Print References

Woodside A.M. (1946) Life history studies of Euschistus servus and E. tristigmus. Journal of Economic Entomology 39: 161-163.

Internet References

Featured Creatures - Gomez & Mizel 2008-2013(5)

Univ. Alberta(6)

Works Cited

1.	The Pentatomoidea (Hemiptera) of Northeastern North America J.E. McPherson. 1982. Southern Illinois University Press.

2.	Catalog of the Heteroptera, or True Bugs of Canada and the Continental United States Thomas J. Henry, Richard C. Froeschner. 1988. Brill Academic Publishers.

3.	Pentatomoidea Host Index

4.	Heteroptera of economic importance Schaefer C.W., Panizzi A.R. (eds). 2000. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, 828 pp.

5.	University of Florida: Featured Creatures

6.	University of Alberta Entomology Collection

Contributed by Ted Kropiewnicki on 8 December, 2007 - 7:06pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 19 June, 2017 - 5:20pm

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