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Species Neacoryphus bicrucis - Whitecrossed Seed Bug

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Whitecrossed Seed Bug - Neacoryphus bicrucis

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Pennsylvania True Bug - Neacoryphus bicrucis

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.

Contributed by Cotinis on 6 December, 2004 - 8:12pm
Additional contributions by Robin McLeod, Bbarnd, Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 5 August, 2023 - 4:32pm

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