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Species Megalonotus sabulicola

Rhyparochromidae? - Megalonotus sabulicola

Another Megalonotus sabulicola - Megalonotus sabulicola

Dirt-colored Seed Bug - Megalonotus sabulicola

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 Megalonotini

Genus Megalonotus

Species sabulicola (Megalonotus sabulicola)

Explanation of Names

Megalonotus sabulicola Thomson 1870

Size

4.5-5.5 mm

Range

Holarctic(1); considered non-native in NA (QC-ON, BC e. & w. US)(2)(3)

Habitat

Dry areas(1)

Remarks

earliest NA record: CA 1921(3)

Internet References

Species page (Bantock & Botting 2010)(4)

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.	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.

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

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

Contributed by Boris Büche on 7 May, 2007 - 7:11am
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 8 May, 2013 - 10:51am

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