Piesma

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

Piesma
Piesma maculatum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Family: Piesmatidae
Subfamily: Piesmatinae
Genus: Piesma
Lepeletier & Serville, 1825[1]
Type species
Acanthia capitata
Wolff, 1804
Synonyms[2]
  • Acanthia Wolff, 1804
  • Agrammodes Uhler, 1895
  • Zosmenus Laporte & de Castelnau, 1832
Piesma capitata

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 2020, Lygaeoidea Species File and Fossilworks accept the following species:[2][5]

  • Piesma brachialis McAtee, 1919 – United States
  • Piesma capitata (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
  1. Lepeletier & Serville JGA. 1825. In Olivier AG: Hemiptera Heteroptera. Encyclopédie Métodique, Agasse, Paris 1-833.
  2. Dellapé, Pablo M.; Henry, Thomas J. (2020). "genus Piesma Lepelitier & Serville, 1825". Lygaeoidea Species File. Retrieved 29 August 2020.
  3. 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.
  4. British Bugs: Piesma maculatum.
  5. "Fossilworks: Piesma rotunda". fossilworks.org. Retrieved 29 August 2020.
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