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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » True Bugs (Heteroptera) » Cimicomorpha » Damsel Bugs (Nabidae) » Nabinae » Nabini » Himacerus » Grey Damsel Bug (Himacerus major)

Species Himacerus major - Grey Damsel Bug

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

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 Cimicomorpha

Family Nabidae (Damsel Bugs)

Subfamily Nabinae

Tribe Nabini

Genus Himacerus

Species major (Grey Damsel Bug)

Explanation of Names

Himacerus (Anaptus) major Costa 1842

Size

7.5-9.0 mm(1)

Identification

visual identification clues include apical darkening of the femora and pale connexiva contrasting with the dark hemelytra (Dan Swanson's comments)

Range

adventive in both ne. NA (NS-ON to PA) and nw. NA (BC-CA) - Map (2)(3)(4), native to the Palaearctic

Remarks

earliest NA record: OR 1931(3)

Internet References

British Bugs (Bantock & Botting 2010)(1)

Works Cited

1.	Bantock T., Botting J. (2010‒) British Bugs, an online identification guide to UK Hemiptera

2.	Three new species, notes and new records of poorly known species, and an updated checklist for the North American Nabidae... Kerzhner I.M., Henry T.J. 2008. Proc. Ent Soc. Wash. 110: 988–1011.

3.	Alien true bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) in Canada: composition and adaptations Scudder G.G.E., Foottit R.G. 2006. Can. Entomol. 138: 24-51.

4.	Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)

Contributed by Ted Kropiewnicki on 9 November, 2008 - 6:14pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 5 July, 2023 - 10:14am

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