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Family Piesmatidae - Ash-gray Leaf Bugs

Piesmatidae - Parapiesma cinereum Parapiesma? - Parapiesma cinereum Parapiesma cinereum? - Parapiesma cinereum Bug - Parapiesma cinereum Aradidae?  - Parapiesma cinereum Parapiesma - Parapiesma cinereum Odd bugs from Nebraska - Parapiesma cinereum - male - female Piesma?
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 Lygaeoidea
Family Piesmatidae (Ash-gray Leaf Bugs)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
all of our species are now in Parapiesma, EXCEPT Piesma costatum (Uhler) and P. patruele McAtee, which have indistinct pronotal carinae. --T.J. Henry, pers.comm. to =v= 3.iv.2012
Explanation of Names
Piesmatidae Amyot & Serville 1843
Numbers
7 spp. in 2 genera in our area, 36 spp. in 9 genera worldwide(1)
Identification
see (2)
Range
worldwide (mostly tropics) and across NA(3)
Food
phytophagous, feed on leaves, stems and flowers; hosts include species of the Amaranthaceae, Caryophyllaceae, Chenopodiaceae, Cistaceae, and Fabaceae(3)
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