Banasa stink bug
(Banasa dimidiata)
Conservation • Description • Habitat • Biology • Distribution • Taxonomy
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| IUCN Red List | not listed |
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| Minnesota | not listed |
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Description |
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Banasa stink bug is a colorful, relatively small, 5 ⁄16″ to 7 ⁄16″ long stink bug. It is common and widespread in the United States. The color is highly variable. The plate over the first thoracic segment (pronotum) is light green toward the head, burgundy-red toward the abdomen. The plate over the second thoracic segment (scutellum) is large, triangular, and often green with a light green spot at the tip. Sometimes the scutellum is flushed with burgundy-red, sometimes completely burgundy-red. The spot is always at least partly light green. There are two pairs of wings. The forewings (hemelytra) are longer than and cover the hind wings. They have a thickened section at the base (corium) and a thin membranous section at the tip with a clear dividing line between the two. The corium may be green, green flushed with burgundy-red, or completely burgundy-red. The hindwings are thin and membranous. The head is reddish and has darker punctures. |
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Size |
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Total length: 5 ⁄16″ to 7 ⁄16″ |
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Habitat |
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Biology |
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June to October |
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Behavior |
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Life Cycle |
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Nymph Food |
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A variety of trees and shrubs |
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Adult Food |
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A variety of trees and shrubs |
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Distribution |
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Occurrence |
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Widespread and very common |
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Taxonomy |
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Order |
Hemiptera (true bugs, hoppers, aphids, and allies) | ||
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Heteroptera (true bugs) | ||
Infraorder |
Pentatomomorpha (pentatomomorph bugs) | ||
Superfamily |
Pentatomoidea (stink bugs, shield bugs, and allies) | ||
Family |
Pentatomidae (stink bugs) | ||
Subfamily |
Pentatominae | ||
| Tribe | Pentatomini | ||
Genus |
Banasa | ||
This insect was called Banasa dimiata when it was first described in 1832. In 1859 it was renamed Banasa dimidiata. The latter word translates to “divided in half”, and refers to the bi-colored pronotum. Not all sources have accepted the name change, and both names are in use today. |
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Synonyms |
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Banasa dimiata |
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Common Names |
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Banasa stink bug green burgundy stink bug red-backed stink bug |
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The term Banasa refers to a colony in Mauritania. It is a pronoun and therefore capitalized. |
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Glossary
Corium
The thickened basal portion of the front wing that lies between the clavus and the membrane of insects in the family Hemiptera.
Hemelytron
The forewing of true bugs (Order Hemiptera), thickened at the base and membranous at the tip. Plural: hemelytra.
Pronotum
The saddle-shaped, exoskeletal plate on the upper side of the first segment of the thorax of an insect.
Scutellum
The exoskeletal plate covering the rearward (posterior) part of the middle segment of the thorax in some insects. In Coleoptera, Hemiptera, and Homoptera, the dorsal, often triangular plate behind the pronotum and between the bases of the front wings. In Diptera, the exoskeletal plate between the abdomen and the thorax.
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Casey |
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Found on the wall in our house, never seen one before |
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Highly certain of ID. Matches size and photos very closely. |
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Slideshows |
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| Banasa Stink Bug - Banasa dimiata Joseph Berger |
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Other Videos |
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| red backed stink bug (Banasa dimidiata) Suzanne Tegroen |
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About
Published on May 20, 2013 |
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| Banasa dimiata wetvideocamera |
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Published on May 8, 2013 Shield Bug , Stink Bug - several found one morning in May on a wall. May 6, 2013 |
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| Banasa dimiata wetvideocamera |
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Published on Jun 11, 2012 Stink Bugs - Commonly seen in the Spring among trees and shrubs. They may survive the winter in covered areas. I have never actually noticed the "stink" of these bugs. Perhaps because they are garden pests is why gardeners say they stink ? |
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| Stinkbug - Pre-Flight Check wetvideocamera |
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Published on Sep 21, 2012 Stinkbug doing a Pre-Flight Check |
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| Molly Stoddard 7/7/2022 |
Location: Fergus Falls, MN I have a few photos if needed. |
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| Casey 7/25/2020 |
Location: Otsego, MN Found on the wall in our house, never seen one before |
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| Alfredo Colon 8/14/2019 |
Location: Woodbury, Minnesota |
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| Toby Thaler 7/21/2019 |
Location: Seattle (Fremont neighborhood), on leaves of Himalayan blackberries (an invasive that is everywhere). Highly certain of ID. Matches size and photos very closely. |
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| Lonnie Olson 7/27/2018 |
Location: Grant county. Elbow Lake |
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