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Genus Chelinidea

cactus coreid - Chelinidea vittiger Cactus Coreid? - Chelinidea vittiger Hemiptera - Chelinidea vittiger Cactus bug ? - Chelinidea vittiger - male - female moutling Chelinidea vittiger - Chelinidea vittiger Chelinidea vittiger Mating, Chelinidea vittiger? - Chelinidea vittiger - male - female Female, Chelinidea vittiger? - Chelinidea vittiger - 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 Coreoidea (Leatherbugs)
Family Coreidae (Leaf-footed Bugs)
Subfamily Coreinae
Tribe Chelinideini
Genus Chelinidea
Other Common Names
Cactus Bugs
Explanation of Names
Chelinidea Uhler 1863
Numbers
4 spp. in our area(1), 5 total(2)
Identification
see(3)(2)
Range
New World (US to Venezuela); in our area, C. vittiger transcontinental north to VA-NE-sw.Canada, the rest in sw. US(2); 3 spp. introduced to Australia(4)
Works Cited
1.Catalog of the Heteroptera, or True Bugs of Canada and the Continental United States
Thomas J. Henry, Richard C. Froeschner. 1988. Brill Academic Publishers.
2.A review of the cactus bugs of the genus Chelinidea with the description of a new species (Hemiptera: Coreidae)
Herring J.L. 1980. Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. 82: 237-251.
3.A review of the genus Chelinidea (Hemiptera-Heteroptera) with biological data
Hamlin J.C. 1924. Ann. Ent. Soc. Am. 17: 193-208.
4.Livermore L.J.R., Lemaître V.A., Dolling W.R., Webb M.D. Coreoidea species file online. Version 5.0
Contributed by tom murray on 20 July, 2005 - 6:30pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 18 March, 2017 - 5:20pm

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