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Species Boisea trivittata - Eastern Boxelder Bug


Some new American Rhopalidae (Hemiptera)
By Harris H.M.
J. Kans. Ent. Soc. 15: 100‒105, 1942

Rhopalus (Brachycarenus) tigrinus, recently established in North America, with a key to the genera and species of Rhopalidae...
By Hoebeke E.R., Wheeler A.G., Jr.
Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. 84: 213‒224, 1982
Full title: Rhopalus (Brachycarenus) tigrinus, recently established in North America, with a key to the genera and species of Rhopalidae in eastern North America (Hemiptera: Heteroptera)
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The first Chorosoma (Hemiptera: Rhopalidae: Rhopalinae: Chorosomatini) from the New World: Chorosoma josifovi nov. sp.
By Schwartz M.D., Schaefer C.W., Lattin J.D.
pp. 339-348 in: Grozeva S., Simov N. (Eds) Advances in Heteroptera research... Pensoft Publishers, Sofia–Moscow, 2008
Preliminary note here

A synopsis of the Coreoidea (Heteroptera) of Michigan
By Swanson D.R.
The Great Lakes Entomologist 44: 139-162, 2011
practical keys to 25 spp. of 3 families are provided that are applicable to much wider territory.
sound faunal work, with several new state records.

Three new species of Heteroptera (Hemiptera: Rhopalidae, Rhyparochromidae) from Western North America
By Scudder G.G.E.
Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. 110: 1202‒1211, 2008

Notes on synonymy and nomenclature of Palaeartic Heteroptera
By I.M. Kerzhner
Zoosystematica Rossica, 1993
Established synonymies in Nabidae, Miridae, Piesmatidae, Lygaeidae, Acanthosomatidae, Pentatomidae, Scutelleridae, Lygaeidae.

A synopsis of the Hemiptera-Heteroptera of America north of Mexico
By Torre-Bueno J.R. de la
Ent. amer. 19: 141‒304 & 21: 41‒122, 1939
Full text (parts of v.19‒20 & v.21‒22)

True Bugs (Heteroptera) of the Neotropics
By Panizzi A.R., Grazia J., eds.
Springer. xxii+901 pp., 2015