Published August 3, 2021 | Version v1
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Ascra bifida

Description

Ascra bifida (Say, 1832)

Distribution: United States: AR, FL, LA, MD, MS (Richmond 1962), NC (Brimley 1938), TX. (Mexico, Central America, West Indies, South America)

Comments: This species is better known as Edessa bifida (and was listed as such in Froeschner 1988), but Santos et al. (2015) placed this species in the genus Ascra.

Notes

Published as part of Rider, David A. & Swanson, Daniel R., 2021, A distributional synopsis of the Pentatomidae (Heteroptera) north of Mexico, including new state and provincial records, pp. 1-69 in Zootaxa 5015 (1) on page 12, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5015.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5159085

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Pentatomidae
Genus
Ascra
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Hemiptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Say
Species
bifida
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Ascra bifida (Say, 1832) sec. Rider & Swanson, 2021

References

  • Say, T. (1832) New Species of North American Insects, found by Joseph Barabino, Chiefly in Louisiana. New Harmony, Indiana, 16 pp.
  • Richmond, E. A. (1962) The fauna and flora of Horn Island, Mississippi. Gulf Research Reports, 1 (2), 59 - 106. https: // doi. org / 10.18785 / grr. 0102.01
  • Brimley, C. S. (1938) The Insects of North Carolina Being a List of the Insects of North Carolina and Their Close Relatives. North Carolina Department of Agriculture, Raleigh. 560 pp.
  • Froeschner, R. C. (1988) Family Pentatomidae Leach, 1815. The stink bugs. In: Henry, T. J. & Froeschner, R. C. (Eds.), Catalog of the Heteroptera, or True Bugs, of Canada and the Continental United States. E. J. Brill, Leiden, New York, pp. 544 - 607. https: // doi. org / 10.1201 / 9781351070447 - 30
  • Santos, B. T. S. dos, da Silva, V. J. & Fernandes, J. A. M. (2015) Revision of Ascra with proposition of the bifida species group and description of two new species (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae: Edessinae). Zootaxa, 4034 (3), 445 - 470. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4034.3.2