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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 » Mecideini » Narrow Stink Bug (Mecidea) » Mecidea major

Species Mecidea major

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · Works Cited
Stink Bug - Mecidea major Creature on silver bluestem - Mecidea major 826W26 - Mecidea major White bug - Mecidea major Mecidea - Mecidea major - male bug - Mecidea major Mecidea major? - Mecidea major Mecidea major? - Mecidea major
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)
Species major (Mecidea major)
Explanation of Names
Mecidea major Sailer 1952
Size
9.5‒12.7 mm(1)
Identification
spiracles often darkened(1); male antennomere II longer than III(2)
Range
MN, so.IL‒KS to TX‒AZ to Nicaragua(3)
Possibly also established in FL (one prior record, 1988): specimens collected from cultivated Cenchrus setaceus in St.Petersburg sent to FSCA were identified as M. major. ‒AWM
Season
Apr‒Jan, peak Jul‒Oct(1)
Food
grasses, incl. sideoats grama; some records on Asteraceae(4)
Works Cited
1.The Pentatomoidea (Hemiptera) of Northeastern North America
J.E. McPherson. 1982. Southern Illinois University Press.
2.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.
3.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.
4.Pentatomoidea Host Index
Contributed by Chris Wirth on 19 October, 2005 - 2:54pm
Additional contributions by Andrew Meeds, Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 16 January, 2025 - 8:02pm

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