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Species Xanthochilus saturnius - Mediterranean Seed Bug

Representative Images

Xanthochilus saturnius Gussied-up bug - Xanthochilus saturnius Xanthochilus saturnius Msytery Bug - Xanthochilus saturnius 9125 - Xanthochilus saturnius Hemiptera - Xanthochilus saturnius Xanthochilus saturnius? - Xanthochilus saturnius Xanthochilus saturnius? - Xanthochilus saturnius

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 Xanthochilus
Species saturnius (Mediterranean Seed Bug)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Orig. Comb: Cimex saturnius Rossi, 1790
Syn: Rhyparochromus saturnius (Rossi)

Explanation of Names

Xanthochilus saturnius (Rossi)

Range

adventive to w. US (WA-CA), plus records in AZ & n.TX-OK - Map (1)(2), native across s. Europe

Remarks

earliest NA record: CA 1994(3)
can be very abundant in grass seed fields in so. OR (Rogg 2011)

Works Cited

1.Raglius alboacuminatus (Goeze) and Rhyparochromus vulgaris (Schilling) (Lygaeoidea: Rhyparochromidae)...
Henry T.J. 2004. Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. 106: 513-522.
2.California plant pest & disease report, Vol. 22 (Jul 2002 through Jul 2005)
S. Gaimari, ed. 2005. California Department of Food & Agriculture, Plant Pest Diagnostics Branch. 78 pp.
3.Rhyparochromus saturnius (Rossi) (Heteroptera:Lygaeoidea:Rhyparochromidae), a Palearctic seed bug newly discovered in N. America
Henry T.J., Adamski D. 1998. J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. 106: 132-140.
Contributed by Boris Büche on 12 April, 2007 - 4:30am
Additional contributions by Hannah Nendick-Mason, Bug Eric, Mike Quinn, v belov, Harsi S. Parker
Last updated 13 November, 2024 - 9:57am

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