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species Leptoglossus oppositus (Say, 1832)

• Common name(s):  Northern Leaf-Footed Bug
• Distribution:
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• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial. Diet: Polyphagous; Pest Status: Pest (minor?);
• Ecological relationships:
  • 33 relationships, show list
• Specimen records are available.
• Citations (36):
  • Say. 1832[1831]. New species of North American insects found by Joseph Barabino, chiefly in Louisiana 12 >> Anisoscelis oppositus    urn:lsid:Coreoidea.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:457495
  • Stål. 1870. K. Svens. Vet.-Akad. Hand. 9(1):163-164   >> Leptoglossus oppositus    urn:lsid:Coreoidea.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:452133
  • Lethierry & Severin. 1894. Catalogue général des Hémiptères Tome II:48   >> Leptoglossus oppositus
  • Chittenden. 1902. United States Department of Agriculture Division of Entomology Bulletin New Series 33:1-117 >> Leptoglossus oppositus
  • Torre-Bueno & Brimley. 1907. Entomol. News 18:440   >> Leptoglossus oppositus
  • Morrill. 1910. Bulletin of the United States Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Entomology 86:90 >> Note: Pest; >> Leptoglossus oppositus
  • Barber. 1914. Bulletin Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 33:520   >> Note: Catalogued, Florida; >> Leptoglossus oppositus
  • Van Duzee. 1917. University of California Publications. Technical Bulletins. 2:89   >> Leptoglossus oppositus
  • Gibson, E. H. 1917. Psyche 24(3):71   >> Leptoglossus oppositus
  • Blatchley. 1926. Heteroptera or true bugs of eastern North America, with special references to the faunas of Indiana and Florida 223-224 (Figure 44)   >> Leptoglossus oppositus
  • Deay. 1928. University of Kansas Science Bulletin 18(5):378   >> Leptoglossus oppositus
  • Bissell. 1929. Journal of Economic Entomology 22:598 >> Leptoglossus oppositus
  • Torre-Bueno. 1941. Entomologica Americana New Series 21(2):50 >> Leptoglossus oppositus
  • Froeschner. 1942. American Midland Naturalist 27(3):594-595   >> Leptoglossus oppositus
  • Hussey. 1953. Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc. 48:31 >> Theognis oppositus    urn:lsid:Coreoidea.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:457496
  • Gibson, E. H. & Carillo. 1959. Lista de insectos de la collecion entomológica de la officina de estudios especiales 23 >> Note: Catalogued; >> Leptoglossus oppositus
  • Drew & K. Schaefer. 1963. Proc.Okla.Acad.Sci. 43:114   >> Leptoglossus oppositus
  • McCullough, T. 1968. Ann.Ent.Soc.Amer. 61:1044   >> Note: Biology (scent fluid); >> Leptoglossus oppositus
  • Allen. 1969. Entomologica Americana 45:123-124   >> Note: Description; Biology (host plants); Keyed; Distribution (Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, USA, Venezuela); >> Leptoglossus oppositus
  • Yonke & Medler. 1969. Trans. Wis. Acad. Sci. Arts Lett. 57:163   >> Note: Biology; >> Leptoglossus oppositus
  • Hepburn & Yonke. 1971. J. Kansas Ent. Soc. 44(2):189   >> Note: Scent glands; >> Leptoglossus oppositus
  • Mead. 1971. Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Service, Division of Plant Industry 113:1 >> Note: Key; >> Leptoglossus oppositus
  • Hoffman. 1975. The Insects of Virginia 105(9):16 >> Note: Distribution (Figure 6) >> Leptoglossus oppositus
  • Brailovsky. 1976. An. Inst. Biol. Univ. Nac. Auton. Mex. Ser. Zool. 47(2):40   >> Leptoglossus oppositus
  • Aldrich, Blum & Fales. 1979. Journal of Chemical Ecology 5:54 >> Leptoglossus oppositus
  • Bradley, Ebel & Summerville. 1981. United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service Research Note SE-310:1-3 >> Leptoglossus oppositus
  • Brailovsky & Sánchez. 1983. An. Inst. Biol. Univ. Nac. Auton. Mex. Ser. Zool. 53:234-235   >> Note: (Figures 23,49) >> Leptoglossus oppositus
  • Baranowski & Slater. 1986. Arthropods of Florida and Neighboring Land Areas 12:17, 22-23 >> Leptoglossus oppositus
  • Froeschner. 1988. In Henry, T.J. & Froeschner. Catalog of the Heteroptera or True bugs of Canada and the Continental United States 77 >> Note: Catalogued; >> Leptoglossus oppositus
  • Maes. 1991. Revista Nicaraguense de Entomologia 16:2 >> Leptoglossus oppositus
  • Leal, Panizzi & Niva. 1994. Journal of Chemical Ecology 20(5):1211 >> Leptoglossus oppositus
  • Mitchell, P.L. 2000. In Schaefer, C. W. & Panizzi [Ed.]. Heteroptera of Economic Importance 366-367   >> Leptoglossus oppositus
  • Packauskas & C. W. Schaefer. 2001. Proc. Entomol. Soc. Wash 103(1):253   >> Note: Catalogued; in zonatus species group; >> Leptoglossus oppositus
  • Mitchell, P.L. & A.G. Wheeler. 2008. Proc. Entomol. Soc. Wash 110(4):1034-1041   >> Note: Host plants, Distribution >> Leptoglossus oppositus
  • Packauskas. 2010. Fort Hays Studies 5:65 >> Note: Catalogued (New World); Distribution (Mexico, Nicaragua, USA); >> Leptoglossus oppositus
  • Linares & Orozco. 2017. Biodiversity Data Journal 5:12   >> Note: Distribution (Honduras: Atlántida and Francisco Morazán); Host plants (Pinus sp., cucumber, Helianthus sp., Cucurbita sp., watermelon, Carya sp., Yucca sp., Gossypium sp., Morus sp., Psidium guajava L., corn, Prunus sp., Pyrus sp., coffee, Datura sp., and tomato). >> Leptoglossus oppositus
• Scrutiny:
  • Livermore, 2010, All distribution & host plant data from the studies of Mitchell and Wheeler (2008) have been entered. They list historical distributions and host plant associations which have not been entered fully.
  • Livermore, 2011, Distributions to country level have been entered from Allen, 1969.
  • Livermore, 2011, All North American state-level distributions from Froeschner In Henry & Froeschner (1988) have been entered.

• synonym tarsatus (Megerle, 1802)
• synonym tibialis (Herrich-Schäffer, 1842)

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