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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » True Bugs (Heteroptera) » Cimicomorpha » Cimicoidea » Minute Pirate Bugs (Anthocoridae) » Xylocorini » Xylocoris » subgenus Proxylocoris (Xylocoris subgenus Proxylocoris) » Xylocoris galactinus

Species Xylocoris galactinus

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Size · Range · Habitat · Remarks · Works Cited
Minute Pirate Bug - Xylocoris galactinus Anthocoridae; Xylocorini? - Xylocoris galactinus Anthocoridae? - Xylocoris galactinus Anthocoridae? - Xylocoris galactinus Anthocoridae? - Xylocoris galactinus minute pirate bug – Genus Orius?? - Xylocoris galactinus
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 Cimicomorpha
Superfamily Cimicoidea
Family Anthocoridae (Minute Pirate Bugs)
Tribe Xylocorini
Genus Xylocoris
No Taxon (subgenus Proxylocoris)
Species galactinus (Xylocoris galactinus)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Scoloposcelis discalis Van Duzee 1914
Explanation of Names
Xylocoris galactinus (Fieber 1836)
Size
2.2‒3.1 mm(1)
Range
holarctic, transcontinental in both NA (BC‒CA to QC‒FL) & Eurasia but non-indigenous in our area(1)(2)(3)(4)
Habitat
in NA often taken in stored grain(2)
Remarks
earliest record in our area: NY 1905(2)
Works Cited
1.Keys to the insects of the Far East of the USSR, Vol. 2. Homoptera and Heteroptera
Lehr, P. A., ed. 1988. Leningrad, Nauka Publishing House.
2.The non-indigenous Lyctocoridae and Anthocoridae (Hemiptera : Heteroptera : Cimicoidea) of America North of Mexico
Lattin J.D. 2007. Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. 109: 366-376.
3.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.
4.Catalog of the Heteroptera, or True Bugs of Canada and the Continental United States
Thomas J. Henry, Richard C. Froeschner. 1988. Brill Academic Publishers.
Contributed by v belov on 3 March, 2015 - 5:52pm
Last updated 15 August, 2023 - 1:53am

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