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Tribe Lethaeini

Dirt-colored Seed Bug - Cryphula trimaculata

Cistalia explanata Barber - Cistalia explanata

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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