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Genus Banasa

Hemiptera on Ceanothus - Banasa dimidiata

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 Pentatominae

Tribe Pentatomini

Genus Banasa

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

placement in the Pentatomini is tentative at best; may be better suited in the Menidini(1)

Explanation of Names

Banasa Stål 1860

Numbers

11 spp. in our area(2), ~80 total(3)

Identification

key to NA spp. in(4) (NB: some spp. have been added since); recent key to eastern spp. in(5)

Range

New World; widespread in NA but primarily neotropical(1)

Habitat

arboreal(6)

Remarks

Any ID based on a photo should be considered provisional. --D.B. Thomas, Jr.

Works Cited

1.	The Heteroptera (Hemiptera) of North Dakota I: Pentatomomorpha: Pentatomoidea Rider D.A. 2012. Great Lakes Entomologist 45: 312-380.

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.	Rider D. (2006-) Pentatomoidea home page

4.	A review of the Nearctic species of the genus Banasa Stål (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) Thomas D.B., Yonke T.R. 1981. J. Kans. Ent. Soc. 54: 233‒248.

5.	The Virginia species of Banasa, three decades later (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae) Hoffman R.L. 2005. Banisteria 25: 41‒44.

6.	The Pentatomoidea (Hemiptera) of Northeastern North America J.E. McPherson. 1982. Southern Illinois University Press.

Contributed by Tony DiTerlizzi on 15 October, 2004 - 8:48am
Additional contributions by cotinis, Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 6 November, 2019 - 2:59pm

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