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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 » Ozophorini

Tribe Ozophorini

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Works Cited
Ozophora picturata? - Ozophora picturata unknown insect - Ozophora picturata Ozophora? - Ozophora picturata Dirt-colored Seed Bug - Ozophora picturata yellow-brown, red-brown, & dark-brown patterned Dirt-colored Seed Bug with red eyes - Ozophora occidentalis Long-legged rhyparochromid - Ozophora? - Ozophora occidentalis Dirt-colored Seed Bug - Balboa ampliata Male, Ozophora? - Ozophora depicturata - male
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 Ozophorini
Explanation of Names
Ozophorini Sweet 1964
Numbers
16 spp. in 2 genera in our area, ~240 spp. in 33 genera total(1)
Identification
head rather porrect, with longitudinal grooves on vertex, pronotal collar distinct, profemora usually only slightly incrassate, abdominal scent spiracles located ventrally, inner laterotergites absent(2)
key to western spp. in (3)
Range
most diverse in the Neotropical and Oriental Regions(4)
Works Cited
1.Dellapé P.M., Henry T.J. (2016) Lygaeoidea species file. Version 5.0
2.The Lygaeidae of Florida (Hemiptera: Lygaeidae).
Slater & Baranowski. 1990. Florida Dept. of Ag. and Consumer Services, Gainesville. xv + 211 pp.
3.The Ozophorini of the Western United States and Baja California (Hemiptera: Lygaeidae)
James A.Slater. 1988. Journal of the New York Entomological Society, 96(1): 91-109 .
4.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 - 3:26am
Additional contributions by onegunah
Last updated 13 October, 2023 - 6:39pm

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