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Genus Kleidocerys

Seed Bug: possibly K. modestus - Kleidocerys modestus

Kleidocerys from Washington (1) 10.07.16 - Kleidocerys resedae

Pennsylvania True Bug for ID - Kleidocerys resedae

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)

Subfamily Ischnorhynchinae

Genus Kleidocerys

Explanation of Names

Kleidocerys Stephens 1829

Numbers

8 spp. in our area(1)

Identification

key to spp. in(2)

Range

Holarctic(3)

Food

often on Ericaceae, particularly rhododendrons(3); K. resedae on birch, alder, and other deciduous trees/shrubs(4)

Works Cited

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

2.	A revision of the genus Kleidocerys Stephens in the United States (Hemiptera, Lygaeidae) Barber H.G. 1953. Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. 55: 273-283.

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

4.	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.

Contributed by Richard Leung on 10 April, 2005 - 10:43pm
Additional contributions by v belov, onegunah
Last updated 25 October, 2012 - 12:18am

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