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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 » Stink Bugs (Pentatomidae) » Pentatominae » Halyini » Rough Stink Bugs (Brochymena)

Genus Brochymena - Rough Stink Bugs

Classification · Other Common Names · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Season · Food · Works Cited

Dark Gray Shield Bug - Brochymena sulcata

Female, Brochymena - Brochymena dilata - female

Brochymena male, sulcata? - Brochymena sulcata - male

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 Pentatomidae (Stink Bugs)

Subfamily Pentatominae

Tribe Halyini

Genus Brochymena (Rough Stink Bugs)

Other Common Names

Tree Stink Bugs

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Parabrochymena Larivière 1992 (see discussion here)

Explanation of Names

Brochymena Amyot & Serville 1843

Greek brochos (βρο'χος) 'net' + umen (υμη'ν) 'membrane'

Numbers

17 spp. in our area (+a couple with questionable old records), 25 total(1)(2)

not yet in the guide:

Brochymena apiculata Van Duzee 1923 "sw US," no state records and no US specimens in TAMUIC

Brochymena haedula Stål 1862 recorded in AZ & TX but no US specimens in TAMUIC

Size

10―22 mm(1)

Identification

key to spp. of the arborea-group in (2)

key to the remaining spp. in (1)

Range

NA south to Panama, most diverse in so. US(3)

Habitat

on trees and shrubs(4)

Season

year round in the south; data for each species in(1)

Food

Phytophagous (some reports of predation)(4)

While there are limited reports of predation, there are many sources that mistake this for a primarily predatory group (5). Unlike members of the predatory stink bug subfamily, Asopinae, Brochymena are not obligate predators and probably get most of their nourishment from plants. At least some of these reports appear to be the result of misidentification of Apateticus lineolatus.

Works Cited

1.	Description of Parabrochymena, new genus, and redefinition and review of Brochymena Amyot and Audinet-Serville... Larivière M.-C. 1992. Mem. Ent. Soc. Canada 163: 75 pp.

2.	Parabrochymena Larivière (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae): Systematics, natural history, chorological affinities... Larivière M.-C. 1994. Can. Entomol. 126: 1193-1250.

3.	The Heteroptera (Hemiptera) of North Dakota I: Pentatomomorpha: Pentatomoidea Rider D.A. 2012. Great Lakes Entomologist 45: 312-380.

4.	The Pentatomoidea (Hemiptera) of Northeastern North America J.E. McPherson. 1982. Southern Illinois University Press.

5.	Hidden Company that Trees Keep: Life from Treetops to Root Tips James B. Nardi. 2023. Princeton University Press.

Contributed by Cotinis on 3 April, 2004 - 11:09pm
Additional contributions by Andrew Meeds, v belov, Marci Hess, Arturo Santos
Last updated 4 November, 2023 - 12:04pm

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