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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » True Bugs (Heteroptera) » Pentatomomorpha » Leatherbugs (Coreoidea) » Leaf-footed Bugs (Coreidae) » Coreinae » Hypselonotini » Squash Bugs (Anasa)

Genus Anasa - Squash Bugs

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Food · Remarks · Works Cited
Squash Bug - Anasa armigera squash bug - Anasa repetita ID help please - Anasa scorbutica Squashbug - Anasa tristis nymph - Anasa armigera Squash Bug - Anasa tristis Anasa tristis molting - Anasa tristis Squash Bug Nymph (Anasa tristis) - Anasa tristis
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 Coreoidea (Leatherbugs)
Family Coreidae (Leaf-footed Bugs)
Subfamily Coreinae
Tribe Hypselonotini
Genus Anasa (Squash Bugs)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
revised in Brailovsky (1985)(1)
Explanation of Names
Anasa Amyot & Serville 1843
Numbers
6 spp. in our area, 75 total(2)
Range
neotropical genus ranging into Canada(2)
Food
hosts: Cucurbitaceae
Remarks
A. armigera and A. tristis are very common(3)
parasitized by Trichopoda spp.
Trichopoda egg
Works Cited
1.Revisión del género Anasa Amyot-Serville (Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Coreidae, Coreinae, Coreini)
Brailovsky H.A. 1985. Monografías del Instituto de Biología UNAM 2: 265 pp.
2.Livermore L.J.R., Lemaître V.A., Dolling W.R., Webb M.D. Coreoidea species file online. Version 5.0
3.American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico
Ross H. Arnett. 2000. CRC Press.
Contributed by Eric R. Eaton on 28 October, 2005 - 1:29pm
Additional contributions by Hannah Nendick-Mason, Beatriz Moisset, Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 9 December, 2023 - 4:10pm

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