Picromerus Amyot & Serville, 1843

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 : 8

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5015.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5162562
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scientific name	Picromerus Amyot & Serville, 1843
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Picromerus Amyot & Serville, 1843 View in CoL View at ENA

Picromerus View in CoL is primarily an Old World genus, currently containing eleven species. The single species listed below was first recorded from the United States (Maine, Vermont) by Cooper (1967), and has now spread throughout the northeastern U.S. and southeastern Canada ( Lattin & Donahue 1969, Larochelle & Larivière 1980, and citations listed below).

References

Amyot, C. J. - B. & Serville, J. G. A. (1843) Histoire Naturelle des Insectes. Hemipteres. Fain et Thunot, Paris, 675 pp.

Cooper, K. W. (1967) Picromerus bidens (Linn.), a beneficial, predatory European bug discovered in Vermont (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae). Entomological News, 78 (2), 36 - 40.

Larochelle, A. & Lariviere, M. - C. (1980) Picromerus bidens L. (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae) en Amerique du Nord: repartition geographique, habitat et biologie. Bulletin d'Inventaire des Insectes du Quebec, 2 (1), 10 - 18, 4 maps.

Lattin, J. D. & Donahue, J. P. (1969) The second record of Picromerus bidens (L.) in North America (Heterop. tera, Pentatomidae, Asopinae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 71 (4), 567 - 568.