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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

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » True Bugs (Heteroptera) » Pentatomomorpha » Lygaeoidea » Seed Bugs (Lygaeidae) » Lygaeinae » Oncopeltus » subgenus Erythrischius (Oncopeltus subgenus Erythrischius) » Large Milkweed Bug (Oncopeltus fasciatus)

Keeping milkweed bugs in the classroom

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Oncopeltus fasciatus - interesting informations (life cycles, good photos of all five instars, ...)
Very good photos to distinguishing male and female (female sternal process)

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Contributed by Iustin Cret on 12 February, 2015 - 8:35pm

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » True Bugs (Heteroptera) » Pentatomomorpha » Lygaeoidea » Seed Bugs (Lygaeidae) » Ischnorhynchinae » Kleidocerys » Kleidocerys virescens

seed bug (Kleidocerys virescens) (Fabricius, 1794)

A very good picture of Kleidocerys virescens

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Contributed by Iustin Cret on 15 January, 2020 - 9:49pm

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » True Bugs (Heteroptera) » Pentatomomorpha » Lygaeoidea

Dellapé P.M., Henry T.J. (2016‒) Lygaeoidea species file

[cite:1276948] ▫ older version [read-only]

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Contributed by v belov on 16 August, 2016 - 12:20pm

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » True Bugs (Heteroptera)

Schuh, R.T. 2024. On-line Species Pages of Heteroptera (Insecta)

cite:2343351
Updated database of Heteroptera specimen data (primarily AMNH specimens).

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Contributed by Jason Botz on 4 April, 2024 - 11:28am

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » True Bugs (Heteroptera)

Moreira F.F.F. (2013) Distributional database of the water striders, water bugs, and kissing bugs...

[cite:860225]
Full title: Distributional database of the water striders, water bugs, and kissing bugs (Heteroptera: Gerromorpha, Nepomorpha & Cimicomorpha: Reduviidae: Triatominae)

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Contributed by v belov on 29 October, 2013 - 1:20pm

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » True Bugs (Heteroptera)

Skipper L. (2003-2012) Danmarks Blomstertæger

[cite:610862]
'The plant bugs of Denmark': a marvelous, bountiful resource covering all the heteropteran fauna, with emphasis on the Miridae. In Danish. Worth exploring in depth... and picking up some language along the way (quite manageable)

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Contributed by v belov on 1 February, 2012 - 10:47pm

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » True Bugs (Heteroptera)

Gogala A. (2014) Heteroptera of Slovenia

[cite:609850]
excellent photos and brief profiles of most species that made their way from Europe to NA (another valuable resource of such info is(1))

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Contributed by v belov on 28 January, 2012 - 9:20am

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » True Bugs (Heteroptera)

Choate P.M. (YYYY) Identification key to the principal families of Florida Heteroptera

[cite:360712]
Illustrated by photos of David Almquist

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Contributed by v belov on 24 December, 2009 - 9:34pm

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