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Species Banasa packardii

2018-08-11 Green and brown stink bug - Banasa packardii

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 Pentatomini

Genus Banasa

Species packardii (Banasa packardii)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

spelling packardi vs. packardii discussed here

Explanation of Names

Banasa packardii Stål 1872

Size

10.5‒11.5 mm(1)

Identification

3 rows of pale abdominal spots(1)

Range

so. US (NJ‒FL to OH‒OK‒TX‒CA)(2) to Guatemala (D.B. Thomas, pers. comm. to =v=, 23.ix.2009)

Food

Host: Juniperus(1)

Works Cited

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

2.	A distributional synopsis of the Pentatomidae (Heteroptera) north of Mexico, including new state and provincial records Rider, D.A. and Swanson, D.R. 2021. Zootaxa, 5015(1), 1–69.

Contributed by v belov on 7 September, 2009 - 10:32am
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn
Last updated 2 October, 2023 - 8:51pm

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