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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » True Bugs (Heteroptera) » Pyrrhocoroidea » Red Bugs (Pyrrhocoridae) » Cotton Stainers (Dysdercus) » Cotton Stainer (Dysdercus suturellus)

Species Dysdercus suturellus - Cotton Stainer

Classification · Size · Identification · Range · Food · Remarks · Internet References · Works Cited
Cotton stainer? - Dysdercus suturellus - male - female Nymphs on host - Dysdercus suturellus Cotton Stainer? - Dysdercus suturellus Cotton Stainers Mating - Dysdercus suturellus - male - female plant bug? - Dysdercus suturellus plant bug? - Dysdercus suturellus Valentine Bug - Dysdercus suturellus - male - female True Bug? - Dysdercus suturellus - male - female
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Hemiptera (True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies)
Suborder Heteroptera (True Bugs)
Superfamily Pyrrhocoroidea
Family Pyrrhocoridae (Red Bugs)
Genus Dysdercus (Cotton Stainers)
Species suturellus (Cotton Stainer)
Size
adult 11-17 mm
Identification
Corium light to dark brown, not reddish; black spot absent, but a dark bar sometimes variously developed from obscure to distinct. First antennomere distinctly longer than the second.
Range
se. US(1)
Food
found on many plants, incl. cotton, hibiscus, oranges, etc.(1)
Remarks
a pest of cotton; "Feeding on the cotton bolls stains them an indelible yellow as plant sap seeps out of the puncture wound, and microorganisms and fungus grows at the site. The feeding habit also damages the fibres by cutting them, and affects the growth of the cotton boll." (Tan 2001)
Internet References
Fact sheet (U. of Florida)
Works Cited
1.American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico
By Ross H. Arnett
Contributed by Lynette Schimming on 12 March, 2006 - 12:10pm
Additional contributions by Hannah Nendick-Mason, v belov
Last updated 30 November, 2010 - 2:09pm

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