Banasa Stål, 1860

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 : 63

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5097.1.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:22D34955-4764-495D-8CD0-13ED18712C93
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6953576
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scientific name	Banasa Stål, 1860
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The genus can be recognized by having the tubercle on the base of the abdomen in apposition to a notch in the posterior face of the metasternum; the metasternum is flat or sulcate; the mesosternum has a low, obtuse, mesial carina; the first labial segment is between the bucculae; the mandibular plates and clypeus are equal in length; the antennal segment I not reaching the apex of the head; the femora is unarmed; the tarsi is three segmented; and the frenal margin of the scutellum is longer than the apical portion ( Thomas & Yonke 1990).