Genus Chondrocera

Classification · Numbers · Identification · Internet References

Leaf footed bug? - Chondrocera laticornis

Leaf footed bug - Chondrocera laticornis? - Chondrocera laticornis

What the heck?! - Chondrocera laticornis

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Hemiptera (True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies)

Suborder Heteroptera (True Bugs)

Family Coreidae (Leaffooted Bugs)

Genus Chondrocera

Numbers

A single species in known in FL - see here

Identification

"Resembles Leptoglossus in having strongly expanded and flattened posterior tibiae and a non-declivent head that extends forward beyond the bases of the antennae. Readily distinguished by the prominently expanded and flattened first three antennal segments."(Key to FL Anisocelini)

Internet References

Key to FL Anisocelini

Contributed by Hannah Nendick-Mason on 30 September, 2006 - 10:48am

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