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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » True Bugs (Heteroptera) » Pentatomomorpha » Lygaeoidea » Seed Bugs (Lygaeidae) » Lygaeinae » Oncopeltus » subgenus Erythrischius (Oncopeltus subgenus Erythrischius) » Large Milkweed Bug (Oncopeltus fasciatus)
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Is this a form or variation of a milkweed bug? - Oncopeltus fasciatus
Copyright © 2011 Christopher Lawler

Is this a form or variation of a milkweed bug? - Oncopeltus fasciatus
Media, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, USA
September 26, 2011
Size: about an inch...
Taken at dusk in a field where milkweed bugs and beetles are common...but this specimen is unique to all others I've come across
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Contributed by Christopher Lawler on 1 October, 2011 - 1:32pm
Last updated 27 September, 2015 - 9:46am

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… john and jane balaban, 25 November, 2011 - 3:54pm login or register to post comments

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… john and jane balaban, 24 October, 2011 - 5:52pm login or register to post comments

This looks...
...to me like a specimen which has recently molted, hence the "wet" or "transparent" look to it. I'd be curious to hear what the experts say.
… John Stanard, 1 October, 2011 - 2:31pm login or register to post comments

 
Not an expert, but...
I was thinking the same thing: that it might be a newly eclosed specimen--maybe one that's had just a bit more drying time than this one:

… Ken Wolgemuth, 1 October, 2011 - 2:36pm login or register to post comments

 
I believe...
You've nailed it, Ken. Your image squares up perfectly with the OP's image.
… John Stanard, 1 October, 2011 - 10:52pm login or register to post comments

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