Pohnpeia arachnoides

Familia: Pentatomidae
Subfamilia: Asopinae
Genus: Pohnpeia
Species : Pohnpeia arachnoides

Pohnpeia arachnoides (Ruckes, 1963) [New combination by Rider & Christensen, 2025: 207]

• Ponapea arachnoides Ruckes, 1963: 326
  • Type locality: Ponape, Caroline Islands
  • Holotype: Type 2740, Bernice P. Bishop Museum in Honolulu, Hawaii

• Ruckes, H. 1963. Heteroptera. Pentatomoidea. Insects of Micronesia 7(7): 307–356. Online Reference page.  [p. 326]
• Rider, D.A. & Christensen, C.C. 2025. Pohnpeia, a Replacement Name Proposed for the Preoccupied Generic Name, Ponapea Ruckes, 1963 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae: Asopinae). Journal of the International Heteropterists' Society 2(3): 208–208. DOI: 10.11646/jihs.2.3.6 ResearchGate Reference page. 

• Thomas, D.B. 1994. Taxonomic synopsis of the Old World asopine genera (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae). Insecta Mundi 8(3–4): 145–212. Online. Reference page.  [p. 197]

• Zicha, Ondřej et al. Ponapea Ruckes, 1963 – Taxon details on Biological Library (BioLib).
• Pohnpeia arachnoides – Taxon details on Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF).
• Pohnpeia arachnoides – Taxon details on Index to Organism Names (ION).

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