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For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada

Species Piesma patruela


Piesma costatum (Uhler) (Hemiptera: Piesmatidae): first host-plant records, seasonality, and discovery of the macropterous morph
By Wheeler A.G. Jr.
Proc. Ent Soc. Wash. 121: 725‒734, 2019

The morphology and systematics of the Piesmatidae (Hemiptera), with keys to world genera and American species
By Drake, C.J. and N.T. Davis
Annals of the Entomological Society of America 51: 567-581., 1958
Abstract here.

Concerning Lygaeidae--No.2.
By Barber, H.G.
Journal of the New York Entomological Society 16(2): 49-66., 1918
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Barber, H.G. (1918) Concerning Lygaeidae--No.2. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 16(2): 49-66.

Lygaeidae of the West Indies
By Baranowski, R.M., and J.A. Slater
Florida Agricultural Experiment Station; Gainesville., 2005
Baranowski, R.M., and J.A. Slater. 2005. Lygaeidae of the West Indies. Florida Agricultural Experiment Station; Gainesville. 266 p.

Seed Bugs and their allies (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Lygaeoidea) of the Canadian Prairie Provinces
By David J. Larson, G.G.E. Scudder
Canadian Journal of Arthropod Identification, 34, 2018
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Very nice work!

First Canadian records for two invasive seed-feeding bugs, Arocatus melanocephalus (Fabricius, 1798) and Raglius alboacuminatus
By Acheampong S., Strong W.B., Schwartz M.D., Higgins R.J., Thurston M.A., Walker E.J., Roberts J.
J. Ent. Soc. B.C. 113: 74-78, 2016
Full title: First Canadian records for two invasive seed-feeding bugs, Arocatus melanocephalus (Fabricius, 1798) and Raglius alboacuminatus (Goeze, 1778), and a range extension for a third species, Rhyparochromus vulgaris (Schilling, 1829) (Hemiptera: Heteroptera)

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it's ridiculous how long it took them to record R. alboacuminatus, of which we've had a nice pic from Vancouver Is. as early as 2009

Zoogeography of West Indian Lygaeidae (Hemiptera)
By Slater J.A.
In: J.K. Liebherr (ed.) Zoogeography of Caribbean Insects. Cornell U. Press, Ithaca, NY. Pp. 38-60, 1988

New distribution records for United States Lygaeoidea (Hemiptera: Heteroptera)
By Scudder G.G.E.
J. Ent. Soc. B.C. 107: 83-84, 2010