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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » True Bugs (Heteroptera) » Pentatomomorpha » Lygaeoidea » Blissidae » Ischnodemus

Genus Ischnodemus

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Works Cited
Damage - Ischnodemus variegatus - female Ischnodemus falicus Long Bug - Ischnodemus falicus ? Lygaeidae - Ischnodemus macer The smell of Spartina - Ischnodemus falicus - male - female Blissid from Elymus canadensis - Ischnodemus Female, Blissidae - Ischnodemus - female Wheat Chinch Bug - Ischnodemus brunnipennis
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 Lygaeoidea
Family Blissidae
Genus Ischnodemus
Explanation of Names
Ischnodemus Fieber 1837
Greek 'slender-built'(1)
Numbers
12 spp. in our area(2)(3), 2 spp. reach Canada (NS‒MB)(4)
Range
the only cosmopolitan genus of the family (mostly tropical)(5); in our area, eastern, brunnipennis to CA(2)
Works Cited
1.Composition of scientific words
Brown R.W. 1956. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC. 882 pp.
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.American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico
Ross H. Arnett. 2000. CRC Press.
4.Checklist of the Hemiptera of Canada and Alaska
Maw, H.E.L., R.G. Foottit, K.G.A. Hamilton and G.G.E. Scudder. 2000. NRC Research Press.
5.Australian Faunal Directory
Contributed by Sean McCann on 20 October, 2006 - 7:30pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 27 September, 2023 - 8:34pm

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