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Genus Hoplistoscelis

Hoplistoscelis - Hoplistoscelis pallescens Bug in bottomland - Hoplistoscelis pallescens Nabidae - Hoplistoscelis pallescens - female damsel bug - Hoplistoscelis Hoplistoscelis sp. series, nymph fifth instar - Hoplistoscelis Hoplistoscelis - female Nabid? - Hoplistoscelis Damsel Bug - Hoplistoscelis pallescens
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 Cimicomorpha
Family Nabidae (Damsel Bugs)
Subfamily Nabinae
Tribe Nabini
Genus Hoplistoscelis
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
NB: H. sordida, long believed to be the commonest eastern species(1), does not range north of central Mexico; all the records of H. sordida in our area actually refer to H. pallescens(2)
Explanation of Names
Hoplistoscelis Reuter 1890
Numbers
5 spp. in our area(2)
Range
in our area: (2)
H. pallescens e.NA (ON‒TX)
H. hubbeli VA‒TN‒MO
H. confusa s.US (AZ‒TX‒AR‒FL)
H. sericans e.US (MD‒FL to IL‒TX)
H. heidemanni w.NA (BC/ID‒CA)
Works Cited
1.How to Know the True Bugs
Slater, James A., and Baranowski, Richard M. 1978. Wm. C. Brown Company.
2.Three new species, notes and new records of poorly known species, and an updated checklist for the North American Nabidae...
Kerzhner I.M., Henry T.J. 2008. Proc. Ent Soc. Wash. 110: 988–1011.