Species Ozophora picturata

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Season · Works Cited

Ozophora picturata Uhler - Ozophora picturata

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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

Genus Ozophora

No Taxon (picturata group)

Species picturata (Ozophora picturata)

Explanation of Names

Ozophora picturata Uhler 1871

Size

♂ up to 6 mm, ♀ up to 7 mm(1)

Identification

Basal part of antennomere 4 white(2). The easiest recognition feature for FL specimens is the distinct crimson streak along the posterior portion of each apical corial margin.(3)

Range

US (e. half & across the south) & ON(4); Mexico, W.Indies(5)

Habitat

Forests, especially oak-hickory woodlands

Season

Summer in northern states, but year-round in the south

Works Cited

1.	Seed Bugs of Virginia (Heteroptera: Lygaeidae) Richard L. Hoffman. 1996. Virginia Museum of Natural History.

2.	How to Know the True Bugs Slater, James A., and Baranowski, Richard M. 1978. Wm. C. Brown Company.

3.	The genus Ozophora in Florida (Hemiptera: Lygaeidae) Slater, James A. and Baranowski, Richard M. 1983. Florida Entomological Society.

4.	Twenty three true bug state records for Arkansas, with two for Ohio, U.S.A. Chordas S.W., Tumlison R., Robison H.W., Kremers J. 2011. J. Arkansas Acad. Sci. 65: 153-159.

5.	Catalog of the Heteroptera, or True Bugs of Canada and the Continental United States Thomas J. Henry, Richard C. Froeschner. 1988. Brill Academic Publishers.

Contributed by Eric R. Eaton on 8 March, 2006 - 2:44pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, Graham M, v belov, onegunah
Last updated 18 December, 2023 - 9:29pm

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