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Species Neacoryphus bicrucis - Whitecrossed Seed Bug

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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 Lygaeidae (Seed Bugs)
Subfamily Lygaeinae
Genus Neacoryphus
Species bicrucis (Whitecrossed Seed Bug)
Other Common Names
Ragwort Seed Bug
Explanation of Names
Neacoryphus bicrucis (Say 1825)
Size
7―10 mm
Range
transcontinental, BC―CA to ON―FL to Brazil; absent from n. Rockies and n. Plains(1)(2)(3)(4); more common across so. US(5)
Habitat
Fields, meadows; adults come to light
Season
Mar-Aug in NC(6)
Food
preferred hosts uncertain(5), but likely Senecio and maybe other Asteraceae: Senecioneae(1)
Works Cited
1.The Lygaeidae of Florida (Hemiptera: Lygaeidae).
Slater & Baranowski. 1990. Florida Dept. of Ag. and Consumer Services, Gainesville. xv + 211 pp.
2.Checklist of the Hemiptera of Canada and Alaska
Maw, H.E.L., R.G. Foottit, K.G.A. Hamilton and G.G.E. Scudder. 2000. NRC Research Press.
3.Additional provincial and state records for Heteroptera (Hemiptera) in Canada and the United States
Scudder G.G.E. 2012. J. Ent. Soc. Brit. Columbia 109: 55−69.
4.Dellapé P.M., Henry T.J. (2016) Lygaeoidea species file. Version 5.0
5.How to Know the True Bugs
Slater, James A., and Baranowski, Richard M. 1978. Wm. C. Brown Company.
6.Insects of North Carolina
C.S. Brimley. 1938. North Carolina Department of Agriculture.