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Genus Mecidea - Narrow Stink Bug

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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 Pentatomomorpha
Superfamily Pentatomoidea
Family Pentatomidae (Stink Bugs)
Subfamily Pentatominae
Tribe Mecideini
Genus Mecidea (Narrow Stink Bug)
Explanation of Names
Mecidea Dallas 1851
Numbers
3 spp. (one adventive) in our area, 4 in the New World, >20 total(1)(2)
Identification
body slender; stridulatory strip on at least 3 basal abdominal sterna(1)
see (3)key to spp.
nymphs
Range
much of the world; in our area, c.& so.US(4); not yet in the guide: M. longula FL (adventive)(1)
Food
grass feeders including sideoats grama + some records on Asteraceae(5)
Works Cited
1.Mecidea longula Stål (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae: Pentatominae: Mecideini) is established in south Florida
Eger J.E., Dobbs T.T. 2010. Insecta Mundi 0109: 1‒5.
2.BioLib.cz
3.A review of the stink bugs of the genus Mecidea
R.I.Sailer. 1952. Procedings of the United States National Museum, Vol.102 - No.3309.
4.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.
5.Pentatomoidea Host Index