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For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada

Species Hoplistoscelis pallescens

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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 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)
Works Cited
1.How to Know the True Bugs
Slater, James A., and Baranowski, Richard M. 1978. Wm. C. Brown Company.
2.Three new species, notes and new records of poorly known species, and an updated checklist for the North American Nabidae...
Kerzhner I.M., Henry T.J. 2008. Proc. Ent Soc. Wash. 110: 988–1011.
3.Insects of Ojibway Prairie, a southern Ontario tallgrass prairie
Paiero S.M., Marshall S.A., Pratt P.D., Buck M. 2010. Shorthouse J.D., Floate K.D. (Eds.) Arthropods of Canadian Grasslands, Vol. 1: 199-225.