Elasmostethus

Elasmostethus is a genus of shield bugs belonging to the family Acanthosomatidae.[3][4]

Elasmostethus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hemiptera
Family:	Acanthosomatidae
Genus:	Elasmostethus Fieber, 1860[1]
Type species
Cimex dentatus[2] De Geer, 1773
Synonyms[3][4]
Cyphostethus Fieber, 1860[1] Dichobothrium Breddin, 1903 Ditaenius Bergroth, 1912 Oxydalus Mulsant & Rey, 1866 Stictocarenus Stål, 1871

Species

Species within this genus include:[3][4]

• Elasmostethus atricornis (Van Duzee, 1904)
• Elasmostethus brevis Lindberg, 1934
• Elasmostethus cruciatus (Say, 1831)
• Elasmostethus dorsalis Jakovlev, 1876
• Elasmostethus emeritus (Fabricius, 1775)
• Elasmostethus humeralis Jakovlev, 1883
• Elasmostethus interstinctus (Linnaeus, 1758) – Birch Shieldbug
• Elasmostethus ligatus (Erichson, 1842)
• Elasmostethus lineus (Dallas, 1851)
• Elasmostethus nigropunctatus (Reuter 1881)
• Elasmostethus minor Horváth, 1899
• Elasmostethus sastragaloides (Breddin, 1903)
• Elasmostethus suffusus (Distant, 1900)
• Elasmostethus taeniolus (Dallas, 1851)
• Elasmostethus tristriatus (Fabricius, 1787)

References

1. Fieber, Franz Xaver (1860) ["1861"]. Die europäischen Hemiptera. Halbflügler. (Rhynchota Heteroptera). Nach der analytischenMethode bearbeiet. Wien: Carl Gerold's Sohn. pp. 78, 328–329.
2. Stål, Carolus (1864). "Hemiptera nonnulla nova vel minus cognita". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 4. 4: 54.
3. Zicha, Ondřej. "Genus Elasmostethus Fieber, 1860". BioLib: Biological library. Archived from the original on 19 January 2019. Retrieved 20 April 2018.
4. Cassis, Gerasimos; Gross, Gordon (2002). "Acanthosomatidae: Acanthosomatinae". Hemiptera: Heteroptera (Pentatomomorpha). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. 27.3B. Collingwood, VIC: Csiro Publishing. pp. 363–365. ISBN 978-0-643-06875-9.