Species Drymus brunneus

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Range · Remarks · Internet References · Works Cited

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 Drymini

Genus Drymus

Species brunneus (Drymus brunneus)

Explanation of Names

Drymus brunneus (Sahlberg 1848)

Size

4-5 mm(1)

Range

adventive in w. & e. NA: BC, Greater Vancouver area(2)(3) and ON, Greater Toronto Area(4), native to the Palaearctic (across n. Eurasia)(5),

Remarks

earliest NA record: 1966(2); most of the New World specimens are fully macropterous(3)

Internet References

Species page (Bantock & Botting 2010)(1)

Works Cited

1.	Bantock T., Botting J. (2010‒) British Bugs, an online identification guide to UK Hemiptera

2.	Alien true bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) in Canada: composition and adaptations Scudder G.G.E., Foottit R.G. 2006. Can. Entomol. 138: 24-51.

3.	Drymus brunneus (Sahlberg) (Hemiptera: Rhyparochromidae) a seed bug introduced into North America G.G.E Scudder, L.M. Humble & T. Loh. 2011. J. Entomol. Soc. Brit. Columbia 108: 1-5.

4.	The first eastern North American records for the introduced European rhyparochromids Drymus brunneus (Sahlberg) and Raglius... S.M. Paiero, S.P.L. Luk & D. Beaton. 2020. J. Entomol. Soc. Ontario 151: 25-31.

5.	Keys to the insects of the Far East of the USSR, Vol. 2. Homoptera and Heteroptera Lehr, P. A., ed. 1988. Leningrad, Nauka Publishing House.

Contributed by Tim Loh on 13 April, 2011 - 1:28pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, Stephen Luk, v belov
Last updated 29 April, 2023 - 3:40pm

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