Serinethinae

Serinethinae

Taxobox | name = Serinethinae
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Hemiptera
familia = Rhopalidae
subfamilia = Serinethinae
subfamilia_authority = Stål, 1862
subdivision_ranks = Genera
subdivision = "Boisea"
"Jadera"
"Leptocoris"

Serinethinae is a subfamily of the hemipteran family Rhopalidae, sometimes known as soapberry bugs.Fact|date=September 2007 They are brightly-colored seed eaters, comprising two or three genera and about seventy species. These bugs are specialists on soapberry plants (Sapindaceae); that is, they feed on the berries and reproduce on the stems and leaves of these plants. An example is "J. haematoloma", a soapberry bug found in Florida and well-known for its rapid adaptive evolution following the introduction of a non-native soapberry plant to its native environ. The boxelder bug is a common example of a soapberry bug.


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