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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » True Bugs (Heteroptera) » Pentatomomorpha » Leatherbugs (Coreoidea) » Broad-headed Bugs (Alydidae) » Alydinae » Alydus » Alydus eurinus

Species Alydus eurinus

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · Works Cited

A beetle(?) getting nectar from goldenrod - Alydus eurinus

Leaf-footed Bug (?) on aster - Alydus eurinus

Broad-headed Bugs - Alydus eurinus - male - female

Broad-headed Bug / Alydidae? - Alydus eurinus

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

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

Suborder Heteroptera (True Bugs)

Infraorder Pentatomomorpha

Superfamily Coreoidea (Leatherbugs)

Family Alydidae (Broad-headed Bugs)

Subfamily Alydinae

Genus Alydus

Species eurinus (Alydus eurinus)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Alydus pluto Uhler 1872 --"possibly a large, black form of A. eurinus"(1)

Explanation of Names

Alydus eurinus (Say 1825)

eurinus 'broad' referring to the broad head

Numbers

986420

Size

11-15 mm(2)

Identification

Pronotum with rounded hind angles, with no pale margins, head and pronotum densely hairy and punctuate, membrane all dark(2)

Range

widely dist. (AK-NS to CA-FL) - Map (3)(4)(5), most common across e. NA

Season

May-frost in NC

Food

Takes plant juices; occasionally on carrion(6)

Works Cited

1.	Livermore L.J.R., Lemaître V.A., Dolling W.R., Webb M.D. Coreoidea species file online. Version 5.0

2.	Heteroptera of Eastern North America W.S. Blatchley. 1926. The Nature Publishing Company.

3.	Checklist of the Hemiptera of Canada and Alaska Maw, H.E.L., R.G. Foottit, K.G.A. Hamilton and G.G.E. Scudder. 2000. NRC Research Press.

4.	Catalog of the Heteroptera, or True Bugs of Canada and the Continental United States Thomas J. Henry, Richard C. Froeschner. 1988. Brill Academic Publishers.

5.	Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)

6.	How to Know the True Bugs Slater, James A., and Baranowski, Richard M. 1978. Wm. C. Brown Company.

Contributed by Brad Barnd on 25 June, 2007 - 6:56pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 5 July, 2023 - 3:56pm

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