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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) » Rhopalinae » Harmostini » Harmostes » Harmostes serratus

Species Harmostes serratus

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Works Cited
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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 serratus (Harmostes serratus)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Harmostes affinis Dallas 1852, Harmostes ochraceus Blote 1934
Explanation of Names
Harmostes serratus (Fabricius 1794)
serratus refers to the serrate (saw-like) lateral pronotal margins
Size
6-8 mm
Identification
distinguished from the nearctic congeners by the serrate lateral margin of the pronotum (other species may have very weakly denticulate margins, but in these species it is restricted to the anterior half of the margin)(1)
Range
FL-GA, W. Indies, some TX coastal records; Mexico to S. America --map(2)(3)
Works Cited
1.Revision der Gattung Harmostes Burm., 1835 (Heteroptera, Rhopalidae) und einige Bemerkungen zu den Rhopalinae
Göllner-Scheiding U. 1978. Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin 54: 257‒311.
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.
3.Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
Contributed by drswanny on 29 June, 2012 - 4:44pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 30 June, 2023 - 5:26pm

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