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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » True Bugs (Heteroptera) » Pentatomomorpha » Lygaeoidea » Dirt-colored Seed Bugs (Rhyparochromidae) » Rhyparochrominae » Lethaeini » Xestocoris » Xestocoris nitens

Species Xestocoris nitens

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
Xestocoris nitens Xestocoris nitens Van Duzee - Xestocoris nitens
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 Lethaeini
Genus Xestocoris
Species nitens (Xestocoris nitens)
Explanation of Names
Xestocoris nitens Van Duzee 1906
Size
3-3.5 mm(1)
Identification
usually brachypterous(1)
Range
e. NA (NF-ON to NC-MO-NE)(2)(3)
Habitat
on the ground among grasses on overdrained soils(1)
Print References
Van Duzee, E.P. (1906) New North American Heteroptera. Ent. News 17: 384-391.
Internet References
Lygaeoidea Species File - LSF
Works Cited
1.How to Know the True Bugs
Slater, James A., and Baranowski, Richard M. 1978. Wm. C. Brown Company.
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.A new species of Xestocoris Van Duzee, with comments on the genus (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Rhyparochromidae: Rhyparochrominae)
O'Donnell J.E. 2007. Zootaxa 1606: 51–57.
Contributed by v belov on 3 March, 2015 - 11:32am
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn
Last updated 26 January, 2023 - 11:31am

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