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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) » Scentless Plant Bugs (Rhopalidae) » Soapberry Bugs (Serinethinae) » Jadera

Genus Jadera

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · Life Cycle · Internet References · Works Cited

Bugs on Japanese Yew and other plants - Jadera haematoloma

Rhopalidae, Boxelder bug? - Jadera haematoloma - male - female

Small red and black bug at multiple instars in Carrollton, Georgia - Jadera haematoloma

Jadera haematoloma? - Jadera haematoloma

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 Rhopalidae (Scentless Plant Bugs)

Subfamily Serinethinae (Soapberry Bugs)

Genus Jadera

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

in (1), Jadera bayardae Göllner-Scheiding 1982 is considered to be an unnecessary new name for J. hinnulea Göllner-Scheiding 1979

Explanation of Names

Jadera Stål 1862

Numbers

4 spp. in our area(2)(1) (J. sanguinolenta record probably based on misidentified J. antica)

Size

7‒13 mm (extralimital spp. up to 18 mm)(2)

Identification

color pattern distinctive among NA rhopalids

keys to spp. in (3)(4)

Range

our spp., adapted from (2)(1)

J. haematoloma US (NJ‒FL to NE‒CA) to S. America, W. Indies

J. antica FL, W. Indies

J. coturnix TX to S. America

J. hinnulea (as bayardae in(2)) TX to Panama

Season

adults overwinter (often in buildings); all year in FL

Food

hosts: mostly Sapindaceae, incl. the introduced Golden Raintree (Koelreuteria)

Life Cycle

Adults overwinter

Internet References

Overview of Florida spp.(5)

Works Cited

1.	Catalog of the Heteroptera, or True Bugs of Canada and the Continental United States Thomas J. Henry, Richard C. Froeschner. 1988. Brill Academic Publishers.

2.	Carroll S., Perreira C. (2014) Soapberry bugs of the world (Rhopalidae: Serinethinae)

3.	Die Gattung Jadera Stål, 1862 (Heteroptera, Rhopalidae) Göllner-Scheiding U. 1979. D. Ent. Z. 26: 47‒75.

4.	Rhopalus (Brachycarenus) tigrinus, recently established in North America, with a key to the genera and species of Rhopalidae... Hoebeke E.R., Wheeler A.G., Jr. 1982. Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. 84: 213‒224.

5.	University of Florida: Featured Creatures

Contributed by Cotinis on 3 May, 2004 - 10:13am
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 9 October, 2023 - 2:55am

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