Family Lygaeidae - Seed Bugs

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Size · Range · Food · See Also · Works Cited

Melanopleurus sp. - Melanopleurus belfragei

black and red bug - Melacoryphus lateralis

Just a bleached out Large Milkweed Bug? - Oncopeltus fasciatus

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 Lygaeidae (Seed Bugs)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Lygaeidae used to be treated to include (as subfamilies) most taxa currently treated as families of the Lygaeoidea; taxonomy adopted here follows Henry (1997)

Numbers

3 subfamilies, with >80 spp. in 14 genera in our area(1) and ~1000 spp. in >100 genera worldwide(2)

Size

3-20 mm

Range

worldwide and throughout NA(1)

Food

mostly seeds(1)

See Also

Coreidae, Alydidae

Works Cited

1.	American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico By Ross H. Arnett

2.	Zoological catalogue of Australia: Hemiptera: Heteroptera (Pentatomomorpha) By G. Cassis & G.F. Gross

Contributed by Troy Bartlett on 16 February, 2004 - 12:32pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, Hannah Nendick-Mason, Beatriz Moisset, Chuck Entz, Mike Quinn, Ted Kropiewnicki, v belov
Last updated 1 December, 2011 - 3:59pm

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