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This example of the Red-shouldered Stink Bug was at my porchlight. There certainly ought to be more examples of this subspecies identified; it is the ssp which ranges over most of the U.S., the nominate ssp being confined to the S.E. states from Louisiana to Florida, Georgia, thence up the East Coast. See: https://www.ndsu.edu/ndsu/rider/Pentatomoidea/PDFs/R/Rider_Chapin_1992a1.pdf