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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » True Bugs (Heteroptera) » Pentatomomorpha » Leatherbugs (Coreoidea) » Leaf-footed Bugs (Coreidae) » Coreinae » Hypselonotini » Catorhintha

Genus Catorhintha

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Works Cited
Bug from the Keys - Catorhintha viridipes Assassin bug - Catorhintha mendica On four-o'clock (Mirabilis sp.) - Catorhintha Catorhinthia? - Catorhintha apicalis Catorhintha sp. - Catorhintha apicalis Coreidae, ventral - Catorhintha Coreidae; Catorhintha? - Catorhintha bug ID - Catorhintha
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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