Heteroscelis Latreille, 1829

Castro-Huertas, Valentina, Grazia, Jocelia, Forero, Dimitri, Fernández, Fernando & Schwertner, Cristiano F., 2022, Stink bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae) of Colombia: An annotated checklist of species, Zootaxa 5097 (1), pp. 1-88 : 9

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5097.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6953335
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scientific name	Heteroscelis Latreille, 1829
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The genus can be recognized by having the base of the abdomen with an anteriorly directed spine or tubercle, the humeral angles cleft or bidentate apically, and the anterolateral prothorax convex ( Thomas 1992).

References

Thomas, D. (1992) Taxonomic synopsis of the Asopine Pentatomidae (Heteroptera) of western hemisphere. Entomological Society of America, Lanham, Maryland, 156 pp.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Hemiptera
Family	Pentatomidae
SubFamily	Asopinae

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