Piesma

Genus of true bugs

Piesma

Piesma maculatum
Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Class:  | Insecta
Order:  | Hemiptera
Suborder:  | Heteroptera
Family:  | Piesmatidae
Subfamily:  | Piesmatinae
Genus:  | Piesma
Lepeletier & Serville, 1825[1]
Type species
Acanthia capitata

Wolff, 1804

Synonyms[2]

* Acanthia Wolff, 1804
* Agrammodes Uhler, 1895
* Zosmenus Laporte & de Castelnau, 1832

Piesma capitatum

Piesma is a genus of ash-grey leaf bugs, insects of the family Piesmatidae. It is the type genus of the family.[2]

## Description

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Piesma bugs are less than 4mm long and can be distinguished from the similar genus Parapiesma by the shape of the pronotum: the side margins have a clearly recognizable notch, which the other lacks.[3] These insects are usually macropterous (having fully developed wings), but are sometimes brachypterous.[4]

## Species

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As of 2021[update], Lygaeoidea Species File and Fossilworks accept the following species:[2][5]

1. Piesma brachialis McAtee, 1919 – United States
2. Piesma capitatum (Wolff, 1804) – Asia, Europe
3. Piesma ceramica McAtee, 1919 – United States
4. Piesma costata (Uhler, 1895) – United States
5. Piesma dilutus (Stål, 1855) – Botswana
6. Piesma explanata McAtee, 1919 – United States
7. Piesma linnavuorii – Africa
8. Piesma maculatum (Laporte, 1833) – Europe, Africa
9. Piesma marginepicta – Africa
10. Piesma patruela McAtee, 1919 – United States
11. Piesma protea McAtee, 1919 – United States
12. †Piesma rotunda Scudder 1890 – United States
13. Piesma xishaena Hsiao & Jing, 1979 – China

## References

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1. ^ Lepeletier & Serville JGA. 1825. In Olivier AG: Hemiptera Heteroptera. Encyclopédie Métodique, Agasse, Paris 1-833.
2. ^ a b c Dellapé, Pablo M.; Henry, Thomas J. (2020). "genus Piesma Lepelitier & Serville, 1825". Lygaeoidea Species File. Retrieved 29 August 2020.
3. ^ Ekkehard Wachmann, Albert Melber, Jürgen Deckert: Wanzen. Band 3: Pentatomomorpha I: Aradoidea (Rindenwanzen), Lygaeoidea (Bodenwanzen u. a.), Pyrrhocoroidea (Feuerwanzen) und Coreoidea (Randwanzen u. a.). (= Die Tierwelt Deutschlands und der angrenzenden Meeresteile nach ihren Merkmalen und nach ihrer Lebensweise. 78. Teil). Goecke & Evers, Keltern 2007, ISBN 978-3-937783-29-1.
4. ^ British Bugs: Piesma maculatum.
5. ^ "Fossilworks: Piesma rotunda". fossilworks.org. Retrieved 17 December 2021.

## External links

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* Media related to Piesma at Wikimedia Commons

Taxon identifiers

Piesma|

* Wikidata: Q10631574
* Wikispecies: Piesma
* BOLD: 71359
* BugGuide: 626145
* CoL: 8NWWC
* EoL: 74330
* EPPO: 1PIESG
* Fauna Europaea: 450901
* Fauna Europaea (new): 31f19fdc-3acd-4bc4-8b0f-66086faa8991
* GBIF: 2008264
* iNaturalist: 453173
* IRMNG: 1200137
* ITIS: 107630
* NBN: NHMSYS0020309661
* NCBI: 238659
* Open Tree of Life: 791211
* Paleobiology Database: 208220
* WoRMS: 151144