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Tribe Pentatomini

Representative Images

Little Shield (or Stink?) Bug ID Request - Thyanta custator Stink Bug - Banasa? - Banasa calva Stink Bug - Banasa calva stinnk bug nymph sp? - Thyanta Shield-backed bug (Scutelleridae?) nymphs and egg cases - Thyanta Green/red/brown beetle - Banasa dimidiata Banasa dimidiata Green burgundy stink bug? - Banasa dimidiata

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 Pentatomoidea
Family Pentatomidae (Stink Bugs)
Subfamily Pentatominae
Tribe Pentatomini

Numbers

ca. 30 spp. in 5 genera in our area(1); ~300 spp. in ~60 genera worldwide(2)

Identification

This tribe is difficult to define. Basically, after most other genera have been placed in other tribes, those remaining genera with spine or tubercle at the base of the abdomen have been placed in the Pentatomini, but the spine/tubercle also occurs in Menidini, some Nezarini, some Procleticini, etc. Banasa placement in the Pentatomini is tentative at best; it may be better suited in the Menidini(3)

Works Cited

1.American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico
Ross H. Arnett. 2000. CRC Press.
2.Rider D. (2006-) Pentatomoidea home page
3.The Heteroptera (Hemiptera) of North Dakota I: Pentatomomorpha: Pentatomoidea
Rider D.A. 2012. Great Lakes Entomol. 45: 312‒380.
Contributed by John R. Maxwell on 4 January, 2009 - 3:10pm
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 17 December, 2014 - 6:47pm

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