Order Hemiptera (True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies)
Suborder Heteroptera (True Bugs)
Infraorder Cimicomorpha
Family Nabidae (Damsel Bugs)
Subfamily Nabinae
Tribe Nabini
Genus Hoplistoscelis
Species pallescens (Hoplistoscelis pallescens)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
records of H. sordida in our area actually refer to H. pallescens; H. sordida, long believed to be the commonest eastern species(1), is Neotropical and does not range north of central Mexico(2)
Explanation of Names
Hoplistoscelis pallescens (Reuter 1872)
Range
The only northeastern species; so. ON and e. US west to the Great Plains(1)(3)