Perillus bioculatus ( Fabricius, 1775 )

Rider, David A. & Swanson, Daniel R., 2021, A distributional synopsis of the Pentatomidae (Heteroptera) north of Mexico, including new state and provincial records, Zootaxa 5015 (1), pp. 1-69 : 7

Perillus bioculatus ( Fabricius, 1775)

New state record: Alabama: Lee Co.: Student Garden Plots , 24-VI-1982, D. A. Rider (1♂ DAR), 28-VI-1982, D. A. Rider (3♂♂ 1♀ DAR) .

Distribution: Canada: AB, BC ( Maw et al. 2000), MB ( Maw et al. 2000), ON, QC, SK ( Maw et al. 2000). United States: AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT ( O’Donnell & Schaefer 2012), FL, GA ( McPherson et al. 1993), IA, ID, IL, IN ( Blatchley 1926, Furth 1974), KS, KY ( Furth 1974), LA ( Townsend 1886), MI, MN ( Knight 1923, Koch et al. 2014), MO, MT, NC ( McPherson & Weber 1980), ND ( Uhler 1878, Hussey 1922, Rider 2012), NE, NH ( Roch 2020), NJ, NM, NV, NY, OH, OK ( Howard 1900, Arnold & Drew 1988), OR, PA, SD ( Parshley 1922, Harris 1937), TX, UT, VA ( Hoffman 1971), VT ( Roch 2020), WA ( Zack et al. 2012), WI ( Chittenden 1911), WY. ( Mexico; this species has also been introduced into Europe, and has become established there)

Comments: Commonly called the twospotted stink bug, Perillus bioculatus has been studied extensively as a biological control agent for the Colorado potato beetle. This species was also recorded from Alabama in an unpublished thesis ( Simons 1969). Hoffman (1971) speculated that the records from Florida might be erroneous or adventive, although this species has been reported from Florida by at least four different workers ( Barber 1914, Altieri & Whitcomb 1979, Meed 1992, Diaz et al. 2012).