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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 » Dirt-colored Seed Bugs (Rhyparochromidae) » Rhyparochrominae » Lethaeini

Tribe Lethaeini

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Works Cited
Dirt-colored Seed Bug - Cryphula trimaculata Bug ID Request - Cryphula Cistalia explanata Barber - Cistalia explanata Rhyparochromid - Cryphula trimaculata Bug - Cryphula trimaculata 905W12 - Cistalia explanata 825W18 - Cistalia explanata 824W07 - Valtissius diversus
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 Rhyparochromidae (Dirt-colored Seed Bugs)
Subfamily Rhyparochrominae
Tribe Lethaeini
Explanation of Names
Lethaeini Stål 1872
Numbers
8 spp. in 4 genera in our area(1), >150 spp. in 35 genera worldwide(2)
Range
worldwide, most diverse in the tropical/subtropical parts of the Afrotropical, Oriental and Australian Regions(2)
Works Cited
1.American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico
Ross H. Arnett. 2000. CRC Press.
2.Zoological catalogue of Australia: Hemiptera: Heteroptera (Pentatomomorpha)
Cassis G., Gross G.F. 2002. CSIRO Publishing, 751 pp.
Contributed by v belov on 8 August, 2009 - 3:25am
Last updated 22 January, 2014 - 12:52pm

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