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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » True Bugs (Heteroptera) » Pentatomomorpha » Pentatomoidea » Stink Bugs (Pentatomidae) » Pentatominae » Mecideini

Tribe Mecideini

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Habitat · Food · Works Cited
? Pentatomidae - Mecidea Pentatomidae? - Mecidea major Plant hopper? - Mecidea Mecidea? - Mecidea minor - male - female Insect - Mecidea Mecidea Jul 31, 2020 - Mecidea Mecidea minor? - Mecidea minor Male, Mecidea minor? - Mecidea
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 Mecideini
Explanation of Names
Mecideini Distant 1902
Numbers
a single genus in the tribe, with 3 spp. (incl. one adventive) in our area and 19 total(1)(2)(3)
Identification
characterized by stridulatory areas on the abdominal venter and slender body(4)
Range
widespread in the Old and New Worlds(4)
Habitat
somewhat arid areas(4)
Food
feed primarily on grasses(4)
Works Cited
1.Rider D. (2006-) Pentatomoidea home page
2.American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico
Ross H. Arnett. 2000. CRC Press.
3.Mecidea longula Stål (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae: Pentatominae: Mecideini) is established in south Florida
Eger J.E., Dobbs T.T. 2010. Insecta Mundi 0109: 1-5.
4.The Heteroptera (Hemiptera) of North Dakota I: Pentatomomorpha: Pentatomoidea
Rider D.A. 2012. Great Lakes Entomologist 45: 312-380.
Contributed by v belov on 14 April, 2011 - 12:28pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset
Last updated 17 December, 2014 - 5:19pm

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