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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » True Bugs (Heteroptera) » Pentatomomorpha » Lygaeoidea » Pachygronthidae » Oedancala

Genus Oedancala

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Habitat · Food · Works Cited
seed bug with forelegs with enlarged femurs - Oedancala dorsalis True Bug Oedancala dorsalis - Oedancala dorsalis Seed Bug - Oedancala dorsalis Seed Bug? - Oedancala dorsalis Oedancala sp.? - Oedancala dorsalis nymph - Oedancala dorsalis Oedancala crassimana? - Oedancala crassimana Pachygronthidae, frontal - Oedancala dorsalis
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 Lygaeoidea
Family Pachygronthidae
Genus Oedancala
Explanation of Names
Oedancala Amyot & Serville 1843
Numbers
5 spp. in our area, 14 total(1)(2)
Identification
fore femora greatly swollen; apical corial margin with dark spot (may be faint) in O. crassimana, immaculate in other spp.(3)
key to spp. in (3)
Range
New World, primarily neotropical
in our area O. dorsalis across e. NA, O. crassimana se.US to NY, 2 spp. restricted to FL, O. bimaculata s.TX(3)(1)
Habitat
marshy areas, damp meadows
Food
nymphs and adults feed on Cyperaceae (Carex, Cyperus, Scirpus)(3)
Works Cited
1.Catalog of the Heteroptera, or True Bugs of Canada and the Continental United States
Thomas J. Henry, Richard C. Froeschner. 1988. Brill Academic Publishers.
2.Dellapé P.M., Henry T.J. (2016) Lygaeoidea species file. Version 5.0
3.The Lygaeidae of Florida (Hemiptera: Lygaeidae).
Slater & Baranowski. 1990. Florida Dept. of Ag. and Consumer Services, Gainesville. xv + 211 pp.
Contributed by john and jane balaban on 25 July, 2005 - 3:02pm
Additional contributions by Robin McLeod, Mike Quinn, JohnMaxwell22, v belov
Last updated 19 July, 2023 - 5:47am

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