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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) » Predatory Stink Bugs (Asopinae) » Stiretrus

Genus Stiretrus

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Works Cited
Stink Bug? - Stiretrus anchorago What is this? - Stiretrus anchorago Pretty Hemipteran - Stiretrus anchorago Possibly anchor stinck bug nymph - Stiretrus anchorago Iridescent Bug - Stiretrus anchorago beetle? dragging around a dead monarch caterpillar - Stiretrus anchorago Stiretrus anchorago (Fabricius) - Stiretrus anchorago unidentified beetle? - Stiretrus anchorago
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 Asopinae (Predatory Stink Bugs)
Genus Stiretrus
Explanation of Names
Stiretrus Laporte 1833
Greek steiros (στειρος) 'barren' + etron (ητρον) 'belly'
Numbers
A single species in our area(1), 7 spp. total(2)
Range
in our area, e. US (west to IA‒TX) & ON(3)
Works Cited
1.American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico
Ross H. Arnett. 2000. CRC Press.
2.Rider D. (2006-) Pentatomoidea home page
3.The Pentatomoidea (Hemiptera) of Northeastern North America
J.E. McPherson. 1982. Southern Illinois University Press.
Contributed by Troy Bartlett on 1 September, 2004 - 9:05am
Additional contributions by cotinis, v belov
Last updated 23 August, 2023 - 7:53pm

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