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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) » Rhopalinae » Niesthreini » Niesthrea

Genus Niesthrea

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Works Cited
Seed Bug ID Request - Niesthrea louisianica 1125C05 - Niesthrea louisianica Mirid? - Niesthrea louisianica nymph - Niesthrea louisianica Arhyssus? - Niesthrea Bug818 - Niesthrea louisianica Unk Hemiptera - Niesthrea louisianica Clusters of nymphs - Niesthrea louisianica
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 Rhopalinae
Tribe Niesthreini
Genus Niesthrea
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
revised in (1)
Explanation of Names
Niesthrea Spinola 1837
Numbers
2 spp. in our area, 13 total(2)
Identification
Connexivia 3-5 mostly black, with narrow white hind margin and small pale patch near middle; <6.5 mm ...N. sidae
Connexivia 3-5 white in posterior third, with distinct white spot near middle; >6.5 mm ...N. louisianica
Range
New World, primarily neotropical
Works Cited
1.Revision of the New World Scentless Plant Bug genus Niesthrea (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Rhopalidae), with descriptions of ...
María Cecilia Melo, Thomas J.Henry. 2019. Insect Systematics and Diversity 3(5): 9; 1–36.
2.Livermore L.J.R., Lemaître V.A., Dolling W.R., Webb M.D. Coreoidea species file online. Version 5.0
Contributed by Eric R. Eaton on 18 November, 2005 - 2:52pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, Hannah Nendick-Mason, Mike Quinn, Boris Bueche, v belov
Last updated 13 September, 2023 - 8:11pm

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