Two alien Heteroptera (Hemiptera) new to Canada

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  • G. G. E. Scudder Department of Zoology University of British Columbia 6270 University Boulevard Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4 phone: (604) 822-3682

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Canada, two new alien species

Abstract

This paper reports two alien species of Heteroptera (Hemiptera), Rhopalus tigrinus (Schilling) (Rhopalidae) and Plinthisus brevipennis (Latreille) (Rhyparochromidae) new to Canada. The former is now known from British Columbia, the latter from British Columbia and Ontario.

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Blades, D.C.A. and C.W. Maier. 1996. A survey of grassland and Montane arthropods collected in the southern Okanagan region of British Columbia. Journal of the Entomological Society of British Columbia 93: 49-73.

Hoebeke, E.R. and A.G. Wheeler, Jr., 1982. Rhopalus (Brachycarenus) tigrinus, recently established in North America, with a key to the genera and species of Rhopalidae in eastern North America (Hemiptera: Heteroptera). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 84: 213-224.

Scudder, G.G.E. and R.G. Foottit. 2006. Alien true bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) in Canada: composition and adaptations. The Canadian Entomologist 138: 24-51.

Wheeler, A.G., Jr. and E.R. Hoebeke. 1999. Rhopalus (Brachycarenus) tigrinus (Hemiptera: Rhopalidae): first western U.S. records of a Eurasian scentless plant bug. Entomological News 110: 92-96.

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Vol. 104 (2007): Journal of the Entomological Society of British Columbia

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