Boisea

{{Short description|Genus of true bugs}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Eastern Boxelder Bug - Flickr - treegrow.jpg | image_caption = ''Boisea trivittata '' | taxon = Boisea | authority = Kirkaldy, 1910 | subdivision = *''Boisea coimbatorensis'' *''Boisea fulcrata'' *''Boisea rubrolineata'' *''Boisea trivittata'' }}

'''''Boisea''''' is the least speciose genus of the soapberry bug subfamily. Members of this genus are found in North America, India, and Africa.<ref>Göllner-Scheiding, U. (1983): General-Katalog der Familie Rhopalidae (Heteroptera). Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin 59, 37-189.</ref> Unlike other serinethine genera, the distribution of ''Boisea'' is very patchy; it is speculated that its highly vicariant range is relictual of what was previously a much vaster, continuous range.<ref>Göllner-Scheiding, U. (1992): Material of the rhopalid genera Leptocoris Hahn, 1833, and Boisea Kirkaldy, 1910 (Heteroptera) from the collection of the Nationaal Natuurhistorisch Museum at Leiden, The Netherlands. Zoologische Mededelingen 66, 277-282.</ref> The most well-known species of this genus are the North American '''boxelder bugs''' (western ''Boisea rubrolineata'' and eastern ''Boisea trivittata'') and African ''Boisea fulcrata''. The US species mainly feed on the seeds of maple trees and are occasional nuisance pests around homes. thumb|''Boisea trivittata''

In North America, ''Boisea trivittata'' is native to most of the continental United States, excluding California, and also in center and Eastern regions of Canada, such as Ontario, Quebec, parts of Manitoba and the Atlantic Provinces. <ref>{{cite web|title=Boisea trivittata|url=http://soapberrybug.org/01_cms/details.asp?ID=57|work=soapberrybug.org/|accessdate=12 March 2014}}</ref> ''Boisea rubrolineata'' is native to western continental Canada, found in the distribution area of boxelder maple, such as the provinces of Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia, and in some places on the United States.<ref>{{cite web|title=Boisea rubrolineata|url=http://soapberrybug.org/01_cms/details.asp?ID=56|publisher=soapberrybug.org|accessdate=12 March 2014}}</ref>

Exocrine secretions of these bugs have also been extensively studied.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Aldrich|first=J.R.|author2=Carroll, S.P.|author3=Oliver, J.E.|author4=Lusby, W.R.|author5=Rudmann, A.A.|author6=Waters, R.M.|title=Exocrine secretions of scentless plant bugs: ''Jadera, Boisea'' and ''Niesthrea'' species|journal=Biochemical Systematics and Ecology|date=1990|volume=18|issue=5|pages=369–376|url=http://soapberrybug.org/_dbase_upl/AB1990.pdf|accessdate=12 March 2014|doi=10.1016/0305-1978(90)90010-d}}</ref>

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Category:Pentatomomorpha genera Category:Hemiptera of North America Category:Serinethinae Category:Taxa named by George Willis Kirkaldy