Species Xanthochilus saturnius - Mediterranean Seed Bug

Classification · Range · Remarks · Works Cited

Anonymous (so far) bug - R. saturnius - Xanthochilus saturnius

Mediterranean Seed Bug in California - Xanthochilus saturnius

Mediterranean Seed Bug - Xanthochilus saturnius

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Hemiptera (True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies)

Suborder Heteroptera (True Bugs)

Superfamily Lygaeoidea

Family Rhyparochromidae (Dirt-colored Seed Bugs)

Tribe Rhyparochromini

Genus Xanthochilus

Species saturnius (Mediterranean Seed Bug)

Range

native to Europe and the Mediterranean, adventive in NA (WA-CA) and now locally abundant(1)(2)

Remarks

can be very abundant in grass seed fields in so. OR (Rogg 2011)

Works Cited

1.	Raglius alboacuminatus (Goeze) and Rhyparochromus vulgaris (Schilling) (Lygaeoidea: Rhyparochromidae)... By T.J. Henry

2.	California plant pest & disease report, Vol. 22 (Jul 2002 through Jul 2005) By S. Gaimari, ed.

Contributed by Boris Büche on 12 April, 2007 - 4:30am
Additional contributions by Hannah Nendick-Mason, Bug Eric, v belov, Harsi S. Parker
Last updated 28 January, 2012 - 12:47pm

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