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Tiny underbark bugs - Xylocoris cursitans
Copyright © 2005 Jim McClarin

Tiny underbark bugs - Xylocoris cursitans
Hollis, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, USA
November 2, 2005
Size: < 2 mm
I found a clutch of these tiny bugs under slightly loose bark on a chunk of deciduous firewood. They are a species I had previously posted that I found in one of my active rearing containers, but these were in a natural habitat. I collected a half-dozen, so these shots might be of different individuals. My bet is that they are flightless adults.

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Contributed by Jim McClarin on 5 November, 2005 - 4:52am
Last updated 16 April, 2007 - 6:22pm

Moved
Moved from Xylocoris.
… Jim McClarin, 16 April, 2007 - 6:22pm login or register to post comments

Xylocoris cursitans
More.
… Donald S. Chandler, 16 April, 2007 - 3:11pm login or register to post comments

Xylocoris
Looking at the images, I feel that the bug is an anthocorid bug - the warehouse pirate bug, Xylocoris. I am rearing this bug at my laboratory placed at the Project Directorate of Biological Control, Bangalore, India.

Chandish Ballal
… ballalchandish, 20 July, 2006 - 6:17am login or register to post comments

 
That's pretty definitive. Thank you, Chandish.
I was about to move these images to the genus level in bugguide. I see it's already been done :-)
… Jim McClarin, 20 July, 2006 - 4:36pm login or register to post comments

Anthocoridae?
I'll venture that they might be minute pirate bugs, family Anthocoridae, though I have no concrete characters to point to as an excuse for this diagnosis:-) Might be a place to start, though.
… Eric R. Eaton, 7 November, 2005 - 4:29pm login or register to post comments

 
Anthocoridae
is what you suggested for them on my previously posted photos but I was unable to locate any Internet images that seemed similar. I'll re-ask the question I asked you then, Eric: Do you know any hemipterists we could ask to have a look?
… Jim McClarin, 7 November, 2005 - 5:07pm login or register to post comments

 
Xylocoris?
I will try and recruit an expert to confirm or deny this ID. I belong to the Heteropterist's Society, but they don't have a forum, unfortunately:-( I'll have to search the membership database at some point.
… Eric R. Eaton, 3 February, 2006 - 3:02pm login or register to post comments

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