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Family Piesmatidae - Ash-gray Leaf Bugs

Piesmatid - Piesma patruela lace bugs? - Parapiesma cinereum Tingidae - Parapiesma cinereum Aradidae? - Parapiesma cinereum tingid - Parapiesma cinereum Parapiesma cinereum? - Parapiesma cinereum Parapiesma - Parapiesma cinereum 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)
See Also
Tingidae
Works Cited
1.Dellapé P.M., Henry T.J. (2016) Lygaeoidea species file. Version 5.0
2.The morphology and systematics of the Piesmatidae (Hemiptera), with keys to world genera and American species
Drake, C.J. and N.T. Davis. 1958. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 51: 567-581.
3.Zoological catalogue of Australia: Hemiptera: Heteroptera (Pentatomomorpha)
Cassis G., Gross G.F. 2002. CSIRO Publishing, 751 pp.
Contributed by Ted Kropiewnicki on 2 January, 2009 - 6:10pm
Additional contributions by Bbarnd, v belov
Last updated 13 October, 2023 - 6:13pm

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