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Species Agonoscelis puberula - African Cluster Bug

Hairy stinkbugs: Prionosoma podopioides? - Agonoscelis puberula True Bug - Agonoscelis puberula African Cluster Bug - Agonoscelis puberula Unknown Bug - Agonoscelis puberula Unknown bug (Trichopepla semivittata or Agonoscelis puberula?) - Agonoscelis puberula Arizona bug - Agonoscelis puberula Agonoscelis puberula? - Agonoscelis puberula Agonoscelis puberula
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 Pentatomoidea
Family Pentatomidae (Stink Bugs)
Subfamily Pentatominae
Tribe Agonoscelidini
Genus Agonoscelis
Species puberula (African Cluster Bug)
Explanation of Names
Agonoscelis puberula Stål 1854
very pubescent:
Range
adventive CA to c. TX / Mexico / W. Indies - Map (1)(2); native to so. Africa
"They are on the spread. I expect them anywhere horehound (Marrubium vulgare) grows." (D.B. Thomas, pers.comm. to =v= 8.i.2015)
Food
known hosts include members of Lamiaceae (horehound, thyme), Linaceae (flax), Buddlejaceae (Buddleja), and Rubiaceae (coffee tree); apparently occurs on an even wider range of hosts
Remarks
earliest record in our area: AZ 1990(1)
See Also
Prionosoma podopioides Uhler
- Range: sw US
Det. D. B. Thomas, 2010
Print References
Thomas, D.B., J.E. Eger, W. Jones (2003) The African Cluster Bug, Agonoscelis puberula (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae), established in the New World. Florida Entomologist 86(2): 151-153. (1)
Internet References
Texas Invasives - Bartelt 2011(3)
Pentatomoidea - North Dakota State Univ.(4)