Brochymena Amyot & Serville, 1843

Rider, David A. & Swanson, Daniel R., 2021, A distributional synopsis of the Pentatomidae (Heteroptera) north of Mexico, including new state and provincial records, Zootaxa 5015 (1), pp. 1-69 : 29-30

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5015.1.1

publication LSID

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persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03A9A276-1933-820E-FF6A-F9F1FE56FE86

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scientific name

Brochymena Amyot & Serville, 1843
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This is a relatively speciose genus (presently 15 species) containing dark grey or blackish, cryptically-colored species; that is, they blend in very well with the tree bark upon which they frequent. The species of Brochymena were reviewed in a series of papers published by the well-known pentatomidologist, Herbert Ruckes (1939a, b, c, 1946a), culminating in a systematic review ( Ruckes 1947). Although this work was very thorough and detailed, the identification keys were constructed to reflect phylogeny; thus, they are very difficult to use. Fortunately, this difficult genus has undergone a more recent review ( Larivière 1992, 1994), in which easier-to-use keys have been provided. In these recent works, Larivière divided the genus into two genera: Brochymena and Parabrochymena (see later in this work). Although this arrangement seems to have gained favor ( Ahmad & McPherson 1998), there remains some question as to whether Parabrochymena is generically distinct from Brochymena .

Brochymena affinis Van Duzee, 1904

Distribution: Canada: BC. United States: AZ ( Larivière 1992), CA, CO, ID, MT ( Larivière 1992), NE ( Larivière 1992), NM (Bundy 2012), NV, OR, SD ( Larivière 1992), UT, WA. (Baja California)

Comments: Torre-Bueno (1939a) listed Iowa for this species, but Froeschner (1988) indicated that this must be an error for Idaho, which Torre-Bueno did not list, and which was one of the original localities given by Van Duzee (1904) for this species.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Pentatomidae

Loc

Brochymena Amyot & Serville, 1843

Rider, David A. & Swanson, Daniel R. 2021
2021
Loc

Brochymena affinis

Van Duzee 1904
1904
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