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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » True Bugs (Heteroptera) » Coreoidea » Broad-headed Bugs (Alydidae)

Family Alydidae - Broad-headed Bugs

Classification · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Food · Remarks · Works Cited
Broad-headed bug - Stachyocnemus apicalis BG1291 D1377 - Alydus eurinus Broad-Headed Bug - Hyalymenus Plant Bug - Protenor belfragei BG2913 E4942 - Stenocoris
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Hemiptera (True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies)
Suborder Heteroptera (True Bugs)
Superfamily Coreoidea
Family Alydidae (Broad-headed Bugs)
Numbers
30 spp. in 13 genera in our area(1), over 250 spp. in ~45 genera of 2-3 subfamilies worldwide(2)(3)
Note: Neomegalotomus, not listed in(1), contains a FL species formerly treated in Megalotomus (Henry & Wilson 2004)
Size
10-18 mm(1)
Identification
Similar to Rhopalidae & Coreidae but head is realtively broader and body usually long and narrow
Range
Across NA(1) and much of the world; most diverse in the tropical/subtropical regions(2)
Habitat
vegetation along roadsides and in wooded areas
Food
All phytophagous(4); Alydinae feed primarily on Fabaceae (often on seeds); Micreletrynae, mainly on grasses(2)
Remarks
Many stink worse than stink bugs (Pentatomidae)
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
4.How to Know the True Bugs
By Slater, James A., and Baranowski, Richard M.
Contributed by Troy Bartlett on 16 February, 2004 - 12:32pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, Beatriz Moisset, Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 12 April, 2012 - 7:16pm

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