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Tribe Strachiini

Orange/white spotted black insect - Murgantia histrionica

Unknown Beetle - Murgantia histrionica - male - female

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 Strachiini

Explanation of Names

Strachiini Mulsant & Rey 1866

Numbers

5 spp. (of which 2 adventive) in 2 genera in our area; ~130 spp. in 19 genera worldwide(1)

Range

more diverse in the Old World, but with several western hemisphere genera(2)

Food

hosts: Brassicaceae(2)

Works Cited

1.	Rider D. (2006-2013) Pentatomoidea home page

2.	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 - 3:12pm
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 17 December, 2014 - 6:56pm

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