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Appearance move to sidebar hide From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Redirected from Boxelder bug) Genus of true bugs
Boisea
Boisea trivittata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Heteroptera
Family: Rhopalidae
Subfamily: Serinethinae
Genus: BoiseaKirkaldy, 1910
Species
  • Boisea coimbatorensis
  • Boisea fulcrata
  • Boisea rubrolineata
  • Boisea trivittata

Boisea is the least speciose genus of the soapberry bug subfamily. Members of this genus are found in North America, India, and Africa.[1] Unlike other serinethine genera, the distribution of Boisea is very patchy; it is speculated that its highly vicariant range is relictual of what was previously a much vaster, continuous range.[2] The most well-known species of this genus are the North American boxelder bugs (western Boisea rubrolineata and eastern Boisea trivittata) and African Boisea fulcrata. The US species mainly feed on the seeds of maple trees and are occasional nuisance pests around homes.

Boisea trivittata

In North America, Boisea trivittata is native to most of the continental United States, excluding California, and also in center and Eastern regions of Canada, such as Ontario, Quebec, parts of Manitoba and the Atlantic Provinces. [3] Boisea rubrolineata is native to western continental Canada, found in the distribution area of boxelder maple, such as the provinces of Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia, and in some places on the United States.[4]

Exocrine secretions of these bugs have also been extensively studied.[5]

References

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  1. ^ Göllner-Scheiding, U. (1983): General-Katalog der Familie Rhopalidae (Heteroptera). Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin 59, 37-189.
  2. ^ Göllner-Scheiding, U. (1992): Material of the rhopalid genera Leptocoris Hahn, 1833, and Boisea Kirkaldy, 1910 (Heteroptera) from the collection of the Nationaal Natuurhistorisch Museum at Leiden, The Netherlands. Zoologische Mededelingen 66, 277-282.
  3. ^ "Boisea trivittata". soapberrybug.org/. Retrieved 12 March 2014.
  4. ^ "Boisea rubrolineata". soapberrybug.org. Retrieved 12 March 2014.
  5. ^ Aldrich, J.R.; Carroll, S.P.; Oliver, J.E.; Lusby, W.R.; Rudmann, A.A.; Waters, R.M. (1990). "Exocrine secretions of scentless plant bugs: Jadera, Boisea and Niesthrea species" (PDF). Biochemical Systematics and Ecology. 18 (5): 369–376. doi:10.1016/0305-1978(90)90010-d. Retrieved 12 March 2014.
Taxon identifiers
Boisea
  • Wikidata: Q4938480
  • Wikispecies: Boisea
  • BOLD: 202768
  • BugGuide: 3597
  • CoL: 8NMJY
  • Coreoidea Species File: 1191176
  • EoL: 74530
  • EPPO: 1BOISG
  • GBIF: 2050242
  • iNaturalist: 53224
  • IRMNG: 1440317
  • ITIS: 108528
  • NCBI: 38107
  • Open Tree of Life: 214222
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