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Genus Neortholomus

Lygaeid - Neortholomus scolopax bug - Neortholomus koreshanus 9041148 bug - Neortholomus scolopax Neortholomus scolopax Female, Neortholomus - Neortholomus scolopax - female Male, Neortholomus - Neortholomus scolopax - male Seed bug? - Neortholomus scolopax rhopalid - Neortholomus koreshanus
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 Lygaeidae (Seed Bugs)
Subfamily Orsillinae
Tribe Orsillini
Genus Neortholomus
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
our spp. used to be treated in Ortholomus (now apparently considered restricted to the Old World)
Explanation of Names
Neortholomus Hamilton 1983
Numbers
5 spp. in our area(1), 9 total(2)(3)
Identification
key to spp. in (4)
Range
New World; in our area, throughout the US & so. Canada(2)
Works Cited
1.American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico
Ross H. Arnett. 2000. CRC Press.
2.The Lygaeidae of Florida (Hemiptera: Lygaeidae).
Slater & Baranowski. 1990. Florida Dept. of Ag. and Consumer Services, Gainesville. xv + 211 pp.
3.Dellapé P.M., Henry T.J. (2016) Lygaeoidea species file. Version 5.0
4.Neortholomus, a new genus of Orsillini (Hemiptera-Heteroptera: Lygaeidae: Orsillinae)
Steven W Hamilton. 1983. University of Kansas Science Bulletin 52(7): 197-234.
Contributed by John R. Maxwell on 18 February, 2009 - 1:52pm
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 17 July, 2023 - 6:26pm

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