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Genus Catorhintha

Catorhintha selector? - Catorhintha selector

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Brown & Cream Insect? - Catorhintha selector

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 Coreidae (Leaf-footed Bugs)

Subfamily Coreinae

Tribe Hypselonotini

Genus Catorhintha

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Ficana Stål 1862

Explanation of Names

Catorhintha Stål 1859

Numbers

7 spp. in our area, >30 total(1)

Identification

key to spp. in (2)

Range

New World, Canada to Argentina(1); in our area, C. mendica in e. NA, other spp. in so. US(3)

Works Cited

1.	Livermore L.J.R., Lemaître V.A., Dolling W.R., Webb M.D. Coreoidea species file online. Version 5.0

2.	Revisión del género Catorhintha Stål (Hemiptera-Heteroptera-Coreidae-Coreinae-Coreini) Brailovsky H., Garcia M. 1987. Monogr. Inst. Biol. Univ. Nal. Auton. Mexico 4: 1‒148.

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

Contributed by Will Chatfield-Taylor on 26 January, 2008 - 12:21am
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 28 October, 2021 - 4:25pm

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