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Species Rhyparochromus vulgaris

True Bug Nymph - Rhyparochromus vulgaris

Dirt-Colored Seed Bug - Rhyparochromus vulgaris

Rhparochromus vulgaris? - Rhyparochromus vulgaris

Some kind of borer? - Rhyparochromus vulgaris

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 Rhyparochromidae (Dirt-colored Seed Bugs)

Subfamily Rhyparochrominae

Tribe Rhyparochromini

Genus Rhyparochromus

Species vulgaris (Rhyparochromus vulgaris)

Explanation of Names

Rhyparochromus vulgaris (Schilling 1829)

Size

7-8 mm(1)

Range

native to Europe, recently introduced to NA (Seattle, WA area)(2)(LaGasa 2006)

Habitat

on the ground and on tree trunks(3); tends to congregate around buildings late in the season seeking shelter

Food

various seeds(3)

Remarks

earliest NA record: WA 2001; since 2003, large congregations have been reported in nw. WA(2); expected to spread to BC(4)

Internet References

Species page (Bantock & Botting 2010)(1)

Works Cited

1.	Bantock T., Botting J. (2010‒) British Bugs, an online identification guide to UK Hemiptera

2.	Exotic seed-bugs (Lygeoidea: Rhyparochromidae & Oxycarenidae) new to the Pacific Northwest LaGasa E., Murray T. 2007. Proceedings, 66th Annual Pacific Northwest Insect Management Conference, Jan. 8-9, 2007: 5-6.

3.	Gogala A. (2014) Heteroptera of Slovenia

4.	Alien true bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) in Canada: composition and adaptations Scudder G.G.E., Foottit R.G. 2006. Can. Entomol. 138: 24-51.

Contributed by Boris Büche on 12 April, 2007 - 4:26am
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, v belov
Last updated 8 May, 2013 - 12:05pm

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