Species Piezogaster spurcus

Male, Piezogaster spurcus? - Piezogaster spurcus - male

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 Coreidae (Leaf-footed Bugs)

Subfamily Coreinae

Tribe Nematopini

Genus Piezogaster

Species spurcus (Piezogaster spurcus)

Explanation of Names

Piezogaster spurcus (Stål 1862)

Identification

Holotype

Range

AZ to Costa Rica(1)

Remarks

omitted in (2)

Works Cited

1.	Catalog of the Coreidae, or Leaf-Footed Bugs, of the New World Richard Packauskas. 2010. Fort Hays State University.

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

Contributed by margarethe brummermann on 3 January, 2011 - 3:27pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 26 January, 2025 - 12:28pm

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