Picromerus

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
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: Pentatomidae
Subfamilia: Asopinae
Genus: Picromerus
Species (11): P. bidens – P. brachypterus – P. conformis – P. elevatus – P. fasciaticeps – P. griseus – P. lewisi – P. nigridens – P. orientalis – P. pseudobidens – P. viridipunctatus
Name

Picromerus Amyot & Serville, 1843:84

Type species: Cimex bidens Linnaeus, 1758:443 [Designated by Kirkaldy, 1903:230]

Synonyms

Cimex (Picromerus) Stål, 1867:497
Cimex Kirkaldy, 1909:4
References
Primary references

Amyot, J.B. & Audinet-Serville, J.G. 1843. Histoire naturelle des insectes. Hémiptères. 657 pp. Librairie encyclopédique de Roret, Paris. BHL Reference page. [p. 84]

Additional references

Ahmad, I. & Önder, F. 1990. A revision of the genus Picromerus Amyot and Serville (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae: Pentatomillae: Asopini) from western Palaearctic with description of two new species from Turkey. Türkiye Entomologii Dergisi 14(2): 75–84. Online Reference page.
Rider, D.A. 2006. Family Pentatomidae. p. 233–403, In: Aukema, A. & Rieger, C. (eds). Catalogue of the Heteroptera of the Palaearctic Region, vol 5. The Netherlands Entomological Society, Amsterdam. ResearchGate Open access PDF. Reference page. [p. 243]
Thomas, D.B. 1994. Taxonomic synopsis of the Old World asopine genera (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae). Insecta Mundi 8(3–4): 145–212. Online. Reference page. [p. 191]
Zhao, Q., Liu, G.-Q. & Bu, W.J. 2013. A review of the Chinese species of the genus Picromerus Amyot and Serville, with description of a new species (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae: Asopinae). Zootaxa 3613(2): 146–164. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3613.2.3 Reference page.

Links

Zicha, Ondřej et al. Picromerus Amyot & Serville, 1843 – Taxon details on Biological Library (BioLib).
Picromerus – Taxon details on Encyclopedia of Life (EOL).
Picromerus Amyot & Serville, 1843 – Taxon details on Fauna Europaea.
Global Biodiversity Information Facility. 2019. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset. Taxon: Picromerus.
ION
Picromerus – Taxon details on Interim Register of Marine and Non-marine Genera (IRMNG).
Nomenclator Zoologicus

Picromerus is a genus of shield bugs in the family Pentatomidae.[1]
Genera

Picromerus bidens (Linnaeus, 1758)
Picromerus brachypterus Ahmad & Önder, 1990
Picromerus conformis (Herrich-Schäffer, 1841)
Picromerus elevatus Zhao, Liu & Bu, 2013
Picromerus fasciaticeps Zheng & Liu, 1987
Picromerus griseus (Dallas, 1851)
Picromerus lewisi Scott, 1874
Picromerus nigridens (Fabricius, 1803)
Picromerus orientalis Rishi & Abbasi, 1973
Picromerus pseudobidens Ahmad & Önder, 1990
Picromerus viridipunctatus Yang, 1935

References

Zicha, Ondrej. "BioLib: Biological library". www.biolib.cz.