Genus Nysius

Classification · Other Common Names · Numbers · Range · Remarks · Works Cited

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Hemiptera (True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies)

Suborder Heteroptera (True Bugs)

Superfamily Lygaeoidea

Family Lygaeidae (Seed Bugs)

Subfamily Orsillinae

Genus Nysius

Other Common Names

false chinch bug

Numbers

12 spp. in our area(1), many more worldwide

Range

worldwide and throughout NA; other Nysiini are mostly in the Old World(2)(1)

It helps to know that in the so.US it tends to be N. raphanus Howard; in the west, N. tenellus Barber; in the midcentral US, N. niger Baker; in the middle north US, N. angustatus; in so. FL, N. scutellatus; in the cold North US, N. thymi; in w. US, N. tenellus and N. raphanus + about 5 more species. N. groelandicus lives far far North. (M.H. Sweet, pers. comm. =v=)

Remarks

3 (or more) species are introduced N. caledoniae, huttoni, vinitor

Works Cited

1.	American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico By Ross H. Arnett

2.	Zoological catalogue of Australia: Hemiptera: Heteroptera (Pentatomomorpha) By G. Cassis & G.F. Gross

Contributed by Eric R. Eaton on 8 March, 2006 - 3:09pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Mike Quinn, Ted Kropiewnicki, v belov
Last updated 16 January, 2012 - 5:36am

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