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Species Catorhintha apicalis

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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 Coreidae (Leaf-footed Bugs)
Subfamily Coreinae
Tribe Hypselonotini
Genus Catorhintha
Species apicalis (Catorhintha apicalis)

Explanation of Names

Catorhintha apicalis (Dallas 1852)

Range

sw US (CA-AZ-CO) & Mexico(1)

Remarks

prior to 16.x.2012, all BG images of this sp. were misidentified as Anasa andresii; IDs corrected by T.J. Henry

Works Cited

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