Family Berytidae - Stilt Bugs

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Food · See Also · Print References · Works Cited

Stilt bugs? - Neoneides muticus - 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)

Superfamily Lygaeoidea

Family Berytidae (Stilt Bugs)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

=Neididae

Numbers

12 spp. in 7 genera in our area(1), >170 spp. in 36 genera worldwide arranged in 3 subfamilies(2)

Size

5-9 mm(1) [2.3-16+ mm worldwide(3)]

Identification

Antennae have four segments, the fourth enlarged:

Range

worldwide and throughout NA(1)(2)

Food

Most are phytophagous, many may be host-specific, often associated with plants with glandular trichomes in Geraniaceae, Onagraceae, Scrophulariaceae, and Solanaceae; most hosts are eudicotyledonous angiosperms; Jalysus & Metacanthus feed on grasses. Some occasionally omnivorous and facultative carnivory or saprophagy.(2)

See Also

Hydrometridae; Emesinae

Print References

Henry T.J. (1997) Monograph of the stilt bugs, or Berytidae (Heteroptera), of the Western Hemisphere. Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Washington 19: 1-149.

Works Cited

1.	American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico By Ross H. Arnett

2.	Zoological catalogue of Australia: Hemiptera: Heteroptera (Pentatomomorpha) By G. Cassis & G.F. Gross

3.	Biodiversity of the Heteroptera By T.J. Henry

Contributed by Troy Bartlett on 16 February, 2004 - 12:32pm
Additional contributions by Mike Boone, cotinis, Bbarnd, Chuck Entz, v belov
Last updated 12 April, 2012 - 7:47pm

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