Species Dysdercus bimaculatus

Classification · Other Common Names · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Internet References · Works Cited

Dysderus species? - Dysdercus bimaculatus - male - female

brown stainer - side - Dysdercus bimaculatus

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

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

Suborder Heteroptera (True Bugs)

Family Pyrrhocoridae (Red Bugs)

Genus Dysdercus (Cotton Stainers)

Species bimaculatus (Dysdercus bimaculatus)

Other Common Names

Two-spotted Cotton Stainer

Explanation of Names

Author of species is Stål, 1854.

Numbers

8 spp. north of Mexico per Henry & Froeschner (1988) (1), but 2 spp are designated as provisional.

Range

Arizona (Mexico to Columbia and Venezuela) per Henry & Froeschner (1988) (1)

These photos may represent a new state record for Texas.

Internet References

Type Specimen - Swedish Museum of Natural History

ITIS

Works Cited

1.	Catalog of the Heteroptera, or True Bugs of Canada and the Continental United States By Thomas J. Henry, Richard C. Froeschner

Contributed by Ted Kropiewnicki on 8 March, 2008 - 6:36pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn
Last updated 29 January, 2009 - 6:23pm

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