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Species Ischnodemus falicus

mating spartina bugs - Ischnodemus falicus - male - female

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 Blissidae

Genus Ischnodemus

Species falicus (Ischnodemus falicus)

Explanation of Names

Ischnodemus falicus (Say 1832)

Range

e. NA (NS-NC to ON-ND-TX) - Map (1)(2)(3), mostly se CAN to e. KS

Food

Prairie Cordgrass - Spartina pectinata

Works Cited

1.	Catalog of the Heteroptera, or True Bugs of Canada and the Continental United States Thomas J. Henry, Richard C. Froeschner. 1988. Brill Academic Publishers.

2.	Checklist of the Hemiptera of Canada and Alaska Maw, H.E.L., R.G. Foottit, K.G.A. Hamilton and G.G.E. Scudder. 2000. NRC Research Press.

3.	Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)

Contributed by tom murray on 7 October, 2007 - 4:04pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov, marcie oconnor
Last updated 13 March, 2023 - 11:02am

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