Species Arhaphe carolina

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Range · Season · Remarks · Works Cited

Arhaphe carolina Herrich-Schaeffer - Arhaphe carolina

bug maybe mimic of mutillid? - Arhaphe carolina

Arhaphe carolina from Hopkins County, TX - Arhaphe carolina

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 Pyrrhocoroidea

Family Largidae (Bordered Plant Bugs)

Genus Arhaphe

Species carolina (Arhaphe carolina)

Explanation of Names

Arhaphe carolina Herrich-Schaeffer 1850

Size

8‒10 mm(1)

Range

se US (VA‒FL to IL‒TX); Mexico(2)

Season

Mar-Jun in Southern Pines, NC(3)

Remarks

Likely a Batesian mimic of mutillid wasps (Hoffman 2005)

Works Cited

1.	How to Know the True Bugs Slater, James A., and Baranowski, Richard M. 1978. Wm. C. Brown Company.

2.	Review of the genus Arhaphe (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Largidae) with descriptions of nine new species from Central America Jaroslav L Stehlík, Harry Brailovsky. 2016. Zootaxa 4093(4):451 .

3.	Insects of North Carolina C.S. Brimley. 1938. North Carolina Department of Agriculture.

Contributed by Giff Beaton on 25 September, 2007 - 5:29pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 29 August, 2023 - 5:58pm

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