Identification, Images, & Information
For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada

Family Pentatomidae - Stink Bugs


Stink Bugs--Insects of Cedar Creek
Page with descriptions, comments on habitat, ecology, and linked images of different genera.

Stink Bugs of Kentucky
Web page with photos.

Identification Guide for Common Stink Bugs in Arkansas
Also available as a PDF.

Featured Creatures: Florida Predatory Stink Bug

Pentatomoidea Host Index
[cite:471567]
Part of Dave Rider’s Pentatomoidea site(1) often cited in the guide. Posted here as a separate entry to facilitate more targeted citation.

Rider D. (2006-) Pentatomoidea home page
[cite:360665]
A comprehensive source of information on pentatomoid families, especially Pentatomidae; some information is of general interest to heteropterists.
The Host Index has its own entry(1) for convenience of citation.

Schuh, R.T. 2024. On-line Species Pages of Heteroptera (Insecta)
cite:2343351
Updated database of Heteroptera specimen data (primarily AMNH specimens).

Moreira F.F.F. (2013) Distributional database of the water striders, water bugs, and kissing bugs...
[cite:860225]
Full title: Distributional database of the water striders, water bugs, and kissing bugs (Heteroptera: Gerromorpha, Nepomorpha & Cimicomorpha: Reduviidae: Triatominae)