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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 » Seed Bugs (Lygaeidae)

Family Lygaeidae - Seed Bugs

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Range · Food · Works Cited

Melanopleurus sp. - Melanopleurus belfragei

black and red bug - Melacoryphus lateralis

Just a bleached out Large Milkweed Bug? - Oncopeltus fasciatus

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 Lygaeidae (Seed Bugs)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Lygaeidae used to be treated to include (as subfamilies) most taxa currently treated as families of the Lygaeoidea

New World genera revised in(1)

Explanation of Names

Lygaeidae Schilling 1829

Numbers

3 subfamilies, with >80 spp. in 15 genera in our area(2)(3) and ~1000 spp. in >100 genera worldwide(4)

Overview of our fauna (* –taxa not yet in the guide)

Family Lygaeidae

Subfamily Ischnorhynchinae Kleidocerys

Subfamily Lygaeinae Anochrostomus · Arocatus · *Hadrosomus · Lygaeus · Lygaeospilus · Melacoryphus · Melanopleurus · Neacoryphus · Ochrimnus (subg. Ochrimnus · Parochrimnus · Phaeochrimnus) · Ochrostomus · Oncopeltus (subg. Erythrischius · Oncopeltus) · *Orsillacis

Subfamily Orsillinae

Tribe Metrargini Xyonysius

Tribe Nysiini Nysius

Tribe Orsillini Belonochilus · Neortholomus

Size

3-20 mm

Range

worldwide and throughout NA(2)

Food

mostly seeds(2)

Works Cited

1.	A Genus Level Revision of Western Hemisphere Lygaeinae (Heteroptera: Lygaeidae) with Keys to Species Alex Slater. 1992. University of Kansas Science Bulletin.

2.	American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico Ross H. Arnett. 2000. CRC Press.

3.	Texas A&M University Insect Collection (TAMUIC)

4.	Zoological catalogue of Australia: Hemiptera: Heteroptera (Pentatomomorpha) Cassis G., Gross G.F. 2002. CSIRO Publishing, 751 pp.

Contributed by Troy Bartlett on 16 February, 2004 - 12:32pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, Hannah Nendick-Mason, josephfortier, Beatriz Moisset, Chuck Entz, Mike Quinn, Ted Kropiewnicki, v belov
Last updated 13 December, 2023 - 11:13am

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