Species Megalotomus quinquespinosus - Lupine Bug

Classification · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Season · Food · Works Cited

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Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

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

Suborder Heteroptera (True Bugs)

Superfamily Coreoidea

Family Alydidae (Broad-headed Bugs)

Subfamily Alydinae

Genus Megalotomus

Species quinquespinosus (Lupine Bug)

Size

14-16 mm

Identification

Large, reddish-brown to yellowish; part of antennomere 4 is pale, contrasting with the dark apical; pronotal angles pointed

Range

Much of NA: transcontinental but perhaps absent from the deep South(1)

Habitat

Edges of deciduous woods

Season

May-Nov in NC; July-Sep in MN

Food

known hosts include mostly legumes, e.g. Baptisia, Ceanothus, Oxytropis, Lupinus, Rhus, Desmodium, Lathyrus venosus, soybeans(1)

Works Cited

1.	How to Know the True Bugs By Slater, James A., and Baranowski, Richard M.

Contributed by Troy Bartlett on 14 March, 2004 - 8:31pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, v belov
Last updated 29 November, 2010 - 8:03am

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