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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)

Subfamily Serinethinae - Soapberry Bugs

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Food · Works Cited
nymph - Boisea Eastern Boxelder Bugs - Boisea trivittata Jadera haematoloma - female 01 - Jadera 12 - Jadera coturnix - female red gray bug - Jadera Finding in my home in the middle of winter in Michigan - Boisea trivittata J. haem? - 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)
Explanation of Names
Serinethinae Stål 1873
Numbers
6 spp. in 2 genera in our area(1), ~65 spp. in 3 genera worldwide(2)
Identification
black-and-red color scheme is distinctive among NA rhopalids
Online guide to US species
Range
most of NA; most diverse in tropical regions of both hemispheres(3)(4); Boisea is a small group represented in NA, so. India, and e. & so. Africa, Jadera is a New World (mostly neotropical) genus, Leptocoris is a large palaeotropical genus(2)
Food
seeds of various Sapindaceae(2)
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.Zoological catalogue of Australia: Hemiptera: Heteroptera (Pentatomomorpha)
Cassis G., Gross G.F. 2002. CSIRO Publishing, 751 pp.
4.Livermore L.J.R., Lemaître V.A., Dolling W.R., Webb M.D. Coreoidea species file online. Version 5.0
Contributed by v belov on 6 November, 2010 - 6:20pm
Additional contributions by Vox Sciurorum, KenW
Last updated 8 September, 2019 - 6:31pm

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