Piesma

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: Lygaeoidea

Familia: Piesmatidae
Subfamilia: Piesmatinae
Genus: Piesma
Species: P. brachiale – P. capitatum – P. ceramicum – P. costatum – P. explanatum – P. kerzhneri – P. maculatum – P. patruele – P. proteum – P. quadratum
Name

Piesma Lepelitier & Serville, 1825

Synonyms

Agrammodes Uhler, 1895
Zosmenus Laporte & de Castelnau, 1832

Piesma maculatum

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Piesma is a genus of ash-grey leaf bugs, insects of the family Piesmatidae. It is the type genus of the family.[2]

Description

Piesma bugs are less than 4mm long and can be distinguished from the similar genus Parapiesma by the shape of the pronotum: the side margins have a clearly recognizable notch, which the other lacks.[3] These insects are usually macropterous (having fully developed wings), but are sometimes brachypterous.[4]
Species

As of 2021, Lygaeoidea Species File and Fossilworks accept the following species:[2][5]

Piesma brachialis McAtee, 1919 – United States
Piesma capitatum (Wolff, 1804) – Asia, Europe
Piesma ceramica McAtee, 1919 – United States
Piesma costata (Uhler, 1895) – United States
Piesma dilutus (Stål, 1855) – Botswana
Piesma explanata McAtee, 1919 – United States
Piesma linnavuorii – Africa
Piesma maculatum (Laporte, 1833) – Europe, Africa
Piesma marginepicta – Africa
Piesma patruela McAtee, 1919 – United States
Piesma protea McAtee, 1919 – United States
†Piesma rotunda Scudder 1890 – United States
Piesma xishaena Hsiao & Jing, 1979 – China

References

Lepeletier & Serville JGA. 1825. In Olivier AG: Hemiptera Heteroptera. Encyclopédie Métodique, Agasse, Paris 1-833.
Dellapé, Pablo M.; Henry, Thomas J. (2020). "genus Piesma Lepelitier & Serville, 1825". Lygaeoidea Species File. Retrieved 29 August 2020.
Ekkehard Wachmann, Albert Melber, Jürgen Deckert: Wanzen. Band 3: Pentatomomorpha I: Aradoidea (Rindenwanzen), Lygaeoidea (Bodenwanzen u. a.), Pyrrhocoroidea (Feuerwanzen) und Coreoidea (Randwanzen u. a.). (= Die Tierwelt Deutschlands und der angrenzenden Meeresteile nach ihren Merkmalen und nach ihrer Lebensweise. 78. Teil). Goecke & Evers, Keltern 2007, ISBN 978-3-937783-29-1.
British Bugs: Piesma maculatum.
"Fossilworks: Piesma rotunda". fossilworks.org. Retrieved 17 December 2021.