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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » True Bugs (Heteroptera) » Pentatomomorpha » Pentatomoidea » Stink Bugs (Pentatomidae) » Pentatominae » Pentatomini

Tribe Pentatomini

Classification · Numbers · Identification · Works Cited

Stink Bug - Banasa calva? (Confirmation Please) - Banasa calva

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 Entomologist 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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