Elasmostethus

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Paraneoptera
Superordo: Condylognatha
Ordo: Hemiptera
Subordo: Heteroptera
Infraordo: Pentatomomorpha
Superfamilia: Pentatomoidea

Familia: Acanthosomatidae
Subfamilia: Acanthosomatinae
Genus: Elasmostethus
Species (3): E. atricornis – E. cruciatus – E. interstinctus

[source: Catalogue of Life: 2013 Annual Checklist]

In synonymy (1): E. dentatus

Check (24): E. amabilis – E. brevis – E. davidi – E. dorsalis – E. ferrugatus – E. fieberi – E. gracilis – E. hasegawai – E. humeralis – E. kansuensis – E. kerzhneri – E. lewisi – E. ligatus – E. matsumuroe – E. membraneus – E. minax – E. minor – E. neonilgriens – E. nigropunctatus – E. rotundus – E. rufescens – E. suffusus – E. tristriatus – E. yunnanus

Name

Elasmostethus Fieber, [1860]

Elasmostethus interstinctus

Primary references

Fieber [1860]: Europ. Hem., 1861, 78, 328.
Kim, W-G., Kim, J-G., Lee, H., Rédei, D. & Jung, S-H. 2017. Review of the genus Elasmostethus (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Acanthosomatidae) from the Korean Peninsula. Zootaxa 4320(2): 351–365. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4320.2.9. Reference page.

Elasmostethus is a genus of shield bugs belonging to the family Acanthosomatidae.[3][4]
Species

Species within this genus include:[3][4]

Elasmostethus atricornis (Van Duzee, 1904)
Elasmostethus brevis Lindberg, 1934
Elasmostethus cruciatus (Say, 1831)
Elasmostethus dorsalis Jakovlev, 1876
Elasmostethus emeritus (Fabricius, 1775)
Elasmostethus humeralis Jakovlev, 1883
Elasmostethus interstinctus (Linnaeus, 1758) – birch shieldbug
Elasmostethus ligatus (Erichson, 1842)
Elasmostethus lineus (Dallas, 1851)
Elasmostethus nigropunctatus (Reuter 1881)
Elasmostethus minor Horváth, 1899
Elasmostethus sastragaloides (Breddin, 1903)
Elasmostethus suffusus (Distant, 1900)
Elasmostethus taeniolus (Dallas, 1851)
Elasmostethus tristriatus (Fabricius, 1787)

References

Fieber, Franz Xaver (1860) ["1861"]. Die europäischen Hemiptera. Halbflügler. (Rhynchota Heteroptera). Nach der analytischenMethode bearbeiet. Wien: Carl Gerold's Sohn. pp. 78, 328–329.
Stål, Carolus (1864). "Hemiptera nonnulla nova vel minus cognita". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 4. 4: 54.
Zicha, Ondřej. "Genus: Elasmostethus Fieber, 1860". BioLib: Biological library. Archived from the original on 19 January 2019. Retrieved 20 April 2018.
Cassis, Gerasimos; Gross, Gordon (2002). "Acanthosomatidae: Acanthosomatinae". Hemiptera: Heteroptera (Pentatomomorpha). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. 27.3B. Collingwood, VIC: Csiro Publishing. pp. 363–365. ISBN 978-0-643-06875-9.