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Genus Antillocoris

Small Hemiptera I can't id - Antillocoris

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 Rhyparochromidae (Dirt-colored Seed Bugs)

Subfamily Rhyparochrominae

Tribe Antillocorini

Genus Antillocoris

Explanation of Names

Antillocoris Kirkaldy 1904

Numbers

3-4 spp. in our area(1)

Size

at ≤3 mm, the smallest lygaeoids(1)

Range

New World; in our area, east of the Great Plains(1), 2 spp. range into Canada (NF-ON)(2)

Habitat

leaf litter

Works Cited

1.	The Lygaeidae of Florida (Hemiptera: Lygaeidae). Slater & Baranowski. 1990. Florida Dept. of Ag. and Consumer Services, Gainesville. xv + 211 pp.

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.

Contributed by tom murray on 19 January, 2008 - 2:54pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov, onegunah
Last updated 22 January, 2014 - 11:19am

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