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Genus Anasa - Squash Bugs

Orange tipped antenna bug - Anasa repetita

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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