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Species Harmostes fraterculus

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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 Rhopalinae
Tribe Harmostini
Genus Harmostes
Species fraterculus (Harmostes fraterculus)
Explanation of Names
Harmostes fraterculus (Say 1832)
fraterculus 'little brother'
Identification
Separated from H. reflexulus in having the scape not distinctly surpassing the apex of the head and the speckled costal margin of the hemelytra
also, bicolored hind femora and parallel black lines in the hyaline portion of the wings
Range
e. US to ne. TX, absent from gulf coastal plains and FL - Map (1)(2)
Print References
(3)
Ratzlaff C.G. (2019) First record of Harmostes fraterculus (Say) (Hemiptera: Rhopalidae) in Canada. J. Ent. Soc. Ont. 150: 27-29 (Full text)
Wheeler Jr., A.G. and Miller, G.L. 1983. Harmostes fraterculus (Hemiptera: Rhopalidae): field history, laboratory rearing, and descriptions of immature stages. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 85: 426–434.