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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » True Bugs (Heteroptera) » Pentatomomorpha » Leatherbugs (Coreoidea) » Leaf-footed Bugs (Coreidae) » Coreinae » Anisoscelini » Leptoglossus » Passionvine Bug (Leptoglossus gonagra)

Species Leptoglossus gonagra - Passionvine Bug

Classification · Other Common Names · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Identification · Range · Food · Remarks · Works Cited

Family Coreidae: Acanthocephala sp. - Leptoglossus gonagra

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 Coreoidea (Leatherbugs)

Family Coreidae (Leaf-footed Bugs)

Subfamily Coreinae

Tribe Anisoscelini

Genus Leptoglossus

Species gonagra (Passionvine Bug)

Other Common Names

Citron Bug (in FL)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Leptoglossus australis (Fabricius 1775)

Explanation of Names

Leptoglossus gonagra (Fabricius 1775)

gonagra (G). 'wild seed' (1)

Identification

Pronotum with narrow transverse arched yellow to red stripe extending to sharply spined humeral angles; abdominal venter with seven longitudinal yellow stripes; antennae black with yellow bands on last three segments.

Range

TX-LA, FL / Pantropical - Map (2)(3)(4), mostly in s.FL

Food

polyphagous(2)

on balsampear (Momordica charantia, Cucurbitaceae):

Remarks

minor pest of citron groves (Citrus medica) in FL, major pest on several crops in S. America(4)

Works Cited

1.	Dictionary of Word Roots and Combining Forms Donald J. Borror. 1960. Mayfield Publishing Company.

2.	Coreidae of Florida (Hemiptera, Heteroptera). Baranowski, R.M. and J.A. Slater. 1986. Arthropods of Florida and Neighboring Land Areas. Vol. 12, no. 630. viii + 82 pp.

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

4.	Heteroptera of economic importance Schaefer C.W., Panizzi A.R. (eds). 2000. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, 828 pp.

Contributed by Hannah Nendick-Mason on 10 June, 2006 - 1:28pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 8 June, 2023 - 10:31am

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