Plant Host Literature Cited
(updated: 10 Mar 2008)

Adair, H. S. 1932. Black pit of the pecan and some insects causing it. United States Department of Agriculture, Circular no. 234 (ns): 14 pp.

Adkins, W. S. 1917. Some Ohio Heteroptera records. Ohio Journal of Science 18(2):58-61.

Ahmad, I. 1981. A revision of the superfamilies Coreoidea and Penttaomoidea [sic] (Heteroptera: Pentatomomorpha) from Pakistan, Azad Kashmir, and Bangladesh. Part I: Additions and corections [sic] of coreid and pentatomid fauna with phylogenetic considerations. Entomological Society of Karachi, Suppl. no. 4, part 1[1979]: 113 pp.

Ahmad, I., M. Hussain, and S. Kamaluddin. 1997. A review of genus Coridius Illiger (Hemiptera: Dinidoridae) from Indo-Pakistan sub-continent with description of two new species from Mekran and Bangladesh and their cladistic relationships. Proceedings of Pakistan Congress of Zoology 17:305-320.

Ahmad, I. and S. Kamaluddin. 1977. A new species of the genus Halyomorpha Mayr (Pentatomoidea: Pentatominae) from Pakistan. Karachi University Journal of Science 5(1-2):71-74.

Ahmad, I. and N. A. Rana. 1981. A new genus and a new species of Antestiini Distant (Pentatomidae, Pentatominae) and their relationships. Pakistan Journal of Zoology 13(1-2):45-50.

Ahmad, I. and N. A. Rana. 1989. The Indo-Pakistani species of Antestia (Heteroptera, Pentatomidae). Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 62(3-4):349-358.

Ahmad, I. and N. A. Rana. 1996. A review of antestiine genus Plautia StDl (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae: Pentatominae) from Indo-Pakistan subcontinent and their cladistic relationships. Pakistan Journal of the Entomological Society of Karachi 11:45-57.

Ahmad, I. and R. H. Zaidi. 1989. A revision of the genus Halyomorpha Mayr (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae: Pentatominae: Carpocorini) from Indo-Pakistan subcontinent with description of a new species from Potohar region of Pakistan and their cladistic analysis. Proceedings of the Pakistan Congress of Zoology 9:237-253.

Alene, D. C., J. Messi, and S. Quilici. 2005. Contribution à la connaissance de la faune d’arthropodes associée à Ricinodendron heudelotii Baill. (Euphorbiaceae) au Cameroun. Fruits 60(2):121-132.

Arismendi, N. and D. B. Thomas. 2003. Pentatomidae (Heteroptera) of Honduras: A checklist with description of a new ochlerine genus.  Insecta Mundi 17(3-4):219-236.

Baloch, G. M. 1973. Natural enemies of Axiagastus cambelli Distant (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) on the Gazelle Peninsula, New Britain. Papua New Guinea Agricultural Journal 24(1):41-45.

Baloch, G. M., A. I. Mohyuddin, and M. A. Ghani. 1968. Xanthium strumarium L. - Insects and other organisms associated with it in West Pakistan. Commonwealth Institute of Biological Control, Technical Bulletin 10:103-111.

Baranowski, R. M., R. I. Sailer, and F. W. Mead. 1983. Euschistus acuminatus, a pentatomid new to the United States (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae).  Florida Entomologist 66(3):287-291.

Batra, S. W. T. 1979. Insects associated with weeds in the northeastern United States. III. Chickweed, Stellaria media, and stitchwort, S. graminea (Caryophyllaceae). Journal of the New York Entomological Society 87(3):223-235.

Baye, T. and S. Gudeta. 2002. Pest survey of Vernonia galamensis in Ethiopia. Pp. 219-221, in: Janick, J. and A. Whipkey (eds.), Trends in New Crops and New Uses. Proceedings of the Fifth National Symposium, Atlanta, Georgia, 10-13 November, 2001. ASHS Press, Alexandria, Virginia.

Beccari, F. and G. A. Fenili. 1960. Entomofauna Iraniana. Dalpada eremica Hob. (Hemiptera-Heteroptera). I. Contributo alla conoscenza morfo-biologica degli stadi imaginali e prima descrizione dell’allotipo maschile. Redia 45:279-329.

Beck, D. E. and D. M. Allred. 1966. Tingidae, Neididae (Berytidae) and Pentatomidae of the Nevada test site. Great Basin Naturalist 26(1-2):9-16.

Beckham, C. M. and H. H. Tippins. 1972. Observations of sunflower insects. Journal of Economic Entomology 65:865-866.

Bernardes, J. L. C., J. Grazia, A. Barcellos, and A. T. Salomão. 2005. Descrição dos estágios imaturos e notas sobre a biologia de Phloea subquadrata (Heteroptera, Phloeidae).  Iheringia (Zool.) 95(4):415-420.

Bertels, A. 1962. Insetos-hóspedes de solánaceas. Iheringia (Zool.) 25:1-11.

Bertels, A. and O. Bauke. 1966. Segunda relação das pragos das plantas cultivadas no Rio Grande do Sul. Pesquisa Agropecuaria Brasileira 1:17-46.

Bibby, F. F.  1961.  Notes on miscellaneous insects of Arizona.  Journal of Economic Entomology 54(2):324-333.

Blatchley, W. S. 1926. Heteroptera or True Bugs of Eastern North America with Special Reference to the Faunas of Indiana and Florida. Indianapolis, The Nature Publ. Co., 1116 pp.

Bliven, B. P. 1955. New phytophagous Hemiptera from the coast range mountains (Pentatomidae, Miridae, Cicadellidae, Psyllidae). Stud. Ins. Redwood Empire I: 8-14.

Boldt, P. E. and T. O. Robbins. 1987. Phytophagous and pollinating insect fauna of Baccharis neglecta (Compositae) in Texas. Environmental Entomology 16:887-895.

Bosq, J. M. 1937. Lista preliminar de los Hemipteros (Heteropteros) especialmente relacionados con la agricultura national. Revista de la Sociedad Entomológica Argentina 9:111-134.

Brailovsky, H., L. Cervantes, and C. Mayorga. 1992. Hemiptera: Heteroptera de Mexico XLIV. Biología, estadios ninfales y fenología de la tribu Pentatomini (Pentatomidae) en la Estación de Biología Tropical "Los Tuxtlas," Veracruz. Universidad Nacional Autónoma México, Publicaciones Especiales 8, 204 pp.

Campobasso, G., E. Colonnelli, L. Knutson, G. Terragitti, and M. Cristofaro (eds.). 1999. Wild Plants and Their Associated Insects in the Palearctic Region, Primarily Europe and the Middle East. USDA-ARS 147. 243 pp.

Carapezza, A. 1997. Heteroptera of Tunisia. Naturalista Siciliano 21, suppl. A: 331 pp.

Carter, C. J. and C. W. T. Young. 1974. Chamaecyparis lawsoniana (Murray) Parlatore another host plant for Cyphostethus tristriatus (F.) (Hem., Acanthosomatidae). Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine 109[1973]:180. [xerox]

Cassis, G. and G. F. Gross. 2002. Hemiptera: Heteroptera (Pentatomomorpha). In: Houston, W. W. K. and A. Wells (eds.), Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 27.3B. CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne, Australia. xiv + 737 pp.

Chatterjee, N. C. 1934. Entomological investigations on the spike disease of sandal (24). Pentatomidae (Hemipt.). Indian Forest Records 20(9):1-31.

Cheema, M. A., M. Irshad, M. Murtaza, and M. A. Ghani. 1973. Pentatomids associated with Graminae and their natural enemies in Pakistan. Commonwealth Institute of Biological Control, Technical Bulletin 16:47-67.

Cornara, L., B. Borghesi, E. Caporali, G. Casazza, E. Roccotiello, G. Troiano, and L. Minuto. 2005. Floral features and reproductive ecology in Thymelaea hirsuta (L.) Endl. Plant Systematics and Evolution 250:157-172.

Denys, C. and T. Tscharntke. 2002. Plant-insect communities and predator-prey ratios in field margin strips, adjacent crop fields, and fallows. Oecologia 130:315-324.

Ding, J-q., W-d. Fu, W. Yun, and R. C. Reardon. 2000. Insects associated with mile-a-minute weed (Polygonum perfoliatum L.) in China: A three-year-survey report. Pp. 225-231, in: Spencer, N. R. [ed.], Proceedings of the X International Symposium on Biological Control of Weeds, Bozeman, Montana.

Eger, J. E., Jr., and J. R. Ables. 1981. Parasitism of Pentatomidae by Tachinidae in South Carolina and Texas. Southwestern Entomologist 6(1):28-33.

Esselbaugh, C. O. 1948. Notes on the bionomics of some midwestern Pentatomidae. Entomologica Americana 28:1-73.

Fontes, E. M. G., D. H. Habeck, and F. Slansky, Jr. 1994. Phytophagous insects associated with goldenrods (Solidago spp.) in Gainesville, Florida.  Florida Entomologist 77(2):209-221.

Forbes, S. A. 1905. Twenty-third Report of the State Entomologist on the Noxious and Beneficial Insects of the State of Illinois. R. R. Donnelley & Sons Co., Chicago, xxxviii + 280 pp., 8 pls.

Foster, D. E., D. N. Ueckert, and C. J. Deloach. 1981. Insects associated with broom snakeweed (Xanthocephalum sarothrae) and thread-leaf snakeweed (Xanthocephalum microcephala) in west Texas and eastern New Mexico. Journal of Range Management 34(6):446-454.

Froeschner, R. C. 1941. Contributions to a synopsis of the Hemiptera of Missouri, Pt. I. Scutelleridae, Podopidae, Pentatomidae, Cydnidae, Thyreocoridae.  American Midland Naturalist 26(1):122-146.

Ghauri, M. S. K. 1977. A revision of Apodiphus Spinola (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae). Bulletin of Entomological Research 67(1):97-106.

Ghauri, M. S. K. 1977. Sarju - a new genus of Halyini (Heteroptera, Pentatomidae, Pentatominae) with new species. Turk. Bitki Koruma Derg. 1(1):9-27.

Ghauri, M. S. K. 1988. A revision of Asian species of the genus Halys Fabricius based on the type material (Insecta, Heteroptera, Pentatomidae, Pentatominae). Entomologische Abhandlungen Staatliches Museum für Tierkunde Dresden 51(6):77-92.

Gilbert, B. L., S. J. Barras, and D. M. Norris. 1967. Bionomics of Tetyra bipunctata (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae: Scutellerinae) as associated with Pinus banksiana in Wisconsin.  Annals of the Entomological Society of America 60(3):698-701.

Goeden, R. D. 1971. The phytophagous insect fauna of milk thistle in southern California. Journal of Economic Entomology 64(5):1101-1104.

Goeden, R. D. and D. W. Ricker. 1968. The phytophagous insect fauna of Russian thistle (Salsola kali var. tenuiflora) in southern California. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 61(1):67-72.

Goeden, R. D. and D. W. Ricker. 1986. Phytophagous insect fauna of the desert shrub, Hymenoclea salsola, in southern California. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 79:39-47.

Golding, F. D. 1927. Notes on the food plants and habits of some southern Nigerian insects. Bulletin of Entomological Research 18:95-99.

Golding, F. D. 1931. Further notes on the food plants of Nigerian insects. Bulletin of Entomological Research 22:221-223.

Golding, F. D. 1935. Further notes on the food plants of Nigerian insects. III. Bulletin of Entomological Research 26:263-265.

Golding, F. D. 1947. Further notes on the food plants of Nigerian insects. VI. Bulletin of Entomological Research 38:75-80.

Gross, G. F. 1975. Handbook of the flora and fauna of South Australia. Plant-feeding and other bugs (Hemiptera) of South Australia. Heteroptera - Part 1. Handbooks Committee, South Australian Government, Adelaide, pp 1-250, 4 col. pls.

Harris, H. M. and F. Andre. 1934. Notes on the biology of Acantholomidea denticulata Stal (Hemiptera, Scutelleridae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 27(1):5-15.

Hart, C. A. 1919. The Pentatomoidea of Illinois with keys to the nearctic genera. [Ed. by J. R. Malloch] Illinois Natural History Survey, Bulletin 13(7):157-223, pl. 16-21.

Heppner, J. B. and D. H. Habeck. 1977. Insects associated with Polygonum (Polygonaceae) in north central Florida. II. Insects other than Lepidoptera.  Florida Entomologist 60(3):167-170.

Hilgendorf, J. H. and R. D. Goeden. 1981. Phytophagous insects reported from cultivated and weedy varieties of the sunflower, Helianthus annuus L., in North America. Bulletin of the Entomological Society of America 27(2):102-108.

Hoffmann, W. E. 1931. Notes on Hemiptera and Homoptera at Canton, Kwangtung Province, Southern China 1924-1929. United States Department of Agriculture, Insect Pest Survey Bulletin 11(3):138-151.

Hopkins, L. and L. A. Carruth. 1954. Insects associated with salt cedar in southern Arizona.  Journal of Economic Entomology 47(6):1126-1129.

Hurd, P. D., Jr. and E. G. Linsley. 1975. Some insects other than bees associated with Larrea tridentata in the southwestern United States. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 77(1):100-120.

Jones, W. A., Jr. 1993. New host and habitat associations for some Arizona Pentatomoidea and Coreidae. Southwestern Entomologist, suppl. 16:1-29.

Josifov, M. V. 1981. Heteroptera, Pentatomoidea. Fauna Bulgarica 12:1-205.

Josifov, M. V. and I. M. Kerzhner. 1978. Heteroptera aus Korea. II. Teil (Aradidae, Berytidae, Lygaeidae, Pyrrhocoridae, Rhopalidae, Alydidae, Coreidae, Urostylidae, Acanthosomatidae, Scutelleridae, Pentatomidae, Cydnidae, Plataspidae). Fragmenta Faunistica 23(9):137-196.

Kirkaldy, G. W. 1909. Catalogue of the Hemiptera (Heteroptera) with biological and anatomical references, lists of foodplants and parasites, etc. Vol. I. Cimicidae. Berlin, xl + 392 pp.

Kluth, S., A. Kruess, and T. Tscharntke. 2001. Interactions between the rust fungus Puccinia punctiformis and ectophagous and endophagous insects on creeping thistle. Journal of Applied Ecology 38:548-556.

Kobayashi, T. 1967. The developmental stages of some species of the Japanese Pentatomoidea (Hemiptera) XVI. Homalogonia and an allied genus of Japan (Pentatomidae). Applied Entomology and Zoology 2(1):1-8.

Krall, B. S., R. J. Bartelt, C. J. Lewis, and D. W. Whitman. 1999. Chemical defense in the stink bug Cosmopepla bimaculata. Journal of Chemical Ecology 25(11):2477-2494.

Lei, C-l. and Z-b. Zhou. 1998. Insect records of Hubei, China.  Hubei Science and Technology Publishing House, Wuhan, China. 650 pp.

LePelley, R. H. 1959. Agricultural Insects of East Africa. East Africa High Commission, Nairobi, 307 pp.

Lin, Y-j., S-m. Zhang, and J-a. Xiong. 1992. Hemiptera: Pentatomidae.  Pp. 168-181, in: Huang, F-s. (ed.), Insects of Wuling Mountains Area, Southwestern China.  Science Press, Beijing, China. 777 pp.

Link, D. and J. Grazia. 1987. Pentatomídeos da região central do Rio Grande do Sul (Heteroptera). Anais da Sociedade Entomológica do Brasil 16(1):115-129.

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Linnavuori, R. 1975. Hemiptera Heteroptera of the Sudan with remarks on some species of the adjacent countries. Part 5. Pentatomidae. Boletim da Sociedade Portuguesa de CiLncias Naturais (2)15:5-128.

Linnavuori, R. E. 1982. Pentatomidae and Acanthosomatidae (Heteroptera) of Nigeria and the Ivory Coast, with remarks on species of the adjacent countries in West and Central Africa. Acta Zoologica Fennica, no. 163: 176 pp.

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Martin, M. C. 1965. An ecological life history of Geranium maculatum. American Midland Naturalist 73(1):111-149.

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Morihara, D. K. and E. U. Balsbaugh, Jr. 1976. Phytopagous insects collected on musk thistle, Carduus nutans, in southeastern South Dakota. Environmental Entomology 5(4):692-696.

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