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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » True Bugs (Heteroptera) » Pentatomomorpha » Pentatomoidea » Burrowing Bugs (Cydnidae) » Cydninae » Geotomini » Tominotus

Genus Tominotus

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Remarks · Works Cited
Burrowing bug - Tominotus conformis Tominotus hogenhoferi (Signoret) - Tominotus hogenhoferi - male Tominotus hogenhoferi (Signoret) - Tominotus hogenhoferi - male Tominotus hogenhoferi (Signoret) - Tominotus hogenhoferi - male Tominotus hogenhoferi (Signoret) - Tominotus hogenhoferi - male Tominotus communis (Uhler) - Tominotus communis Female, Tominotus conformis? - Tominotus conformis - female Tominotus communis
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 Cydnidae (Burrowing Bugs)
Subfamily Cydninae
Tribe Geotomini
Genus Tominotus
Explanation of Names
Tominotus Mulsant & Rey 1866
Numbers
5 spp. in our area(1)(2), 10 total
Range
T. communis is widespread in the south (NC‒IN‒CA)(3), other spp. restricted to sw. US(4)
Remarks
adults and nymphs of T. unisetosus were taken from [an Atta texana] cavity containing mature detritus in Louisiana(5)
Works Cited
1.American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico
Ross H. Arnett. 2000. CRC Press.
2.New United States records for five Heteroptera (Berytidae, Cydnidae, Miridae) from Arizona and New Mexico
Henry, T. J. and J. T. Botz. 2023. Entomological Society of Washington.
3.The Pentatomoidea (Hemiptera) of Northeastern North America
J.E. McPherson. 1982. Southern Illinois University Press.
4.How to Know the True Bugs
Slater, James A., and Baranowski, Richard M. 1978. Wm. C. Brown Company.
5.Cydnidae of the Western Hemisphere
Froeschner, R. C. 1960. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 111(3430): 337-680, 13 plates.
Contributed by v belov on 11 June, 2009 - 3:20pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn
Last updated 29 September, 2023 - 12:35am

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