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Genus Systelloderes

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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 Enicocephalomorpha (Unique-headed Bugs)
Family Enicocephalidae (Gnat Bugs)
Genus Systelloderes
Explanation of Names
Systelloderes Blanchard 1852
Numbers
6 spp. in our area(1), 45 described and >1000 undescribed spp. total
Size
2-11 mm(2)
Identification
Discal cell open distally, ocelli not located on distinct elevations, posterior margin of pronotum shallowly but distinctly emarginate(3)
key to spp. in (2)
Range
nearly cosmopolitan (absent on some islands and in the Palaearctic)
Described nearctic spp.:(4)
biceps (Say) eNA to UT‒AZ
crassatus Usinger sCA
culicis (Uhler) UT
grandis Kritsky OR
inusitatus Drake & Harris MS
iowensis Drake & Harris IA
lateralis Kritsky VA
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.
2.The North American and Caribbean species of Systelloderes (Hemiptera: Enicocephalidae)
Kritsky G. 1978. Ent. News 89: 65-73.
3.How to Know the True Bugs
Slater, James A., and Baranowski, Richard M. 1978. Wm. C. Brown Company.
4.Revision of the New World Enicocephalomorpha (Heteroptera)
Wygodzinsky, P.W. and K. Schmidt. 1991. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History ; no. 200.