Species Blissus leucopterus - Hairy Chinch Bug

Classification · Explanation of Names · Identification

Chinch Bug - Blissus leucopterus - 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)

Family Blissidae

Genus Blissus (Chinch Bugs)

Species leucopterus (Hairy Chinch Bug)

Explanation of Names

leuco= white

pterus= wing

Identification

Black with shiny white wings. Antennae are four segmented and mostly black.

Contributed by tom murray on 13 April, 2006 - 12:36pm
Additional contributions by Omar Fahmy
Last updated 15 September, 2006 - 10:25am

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