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Species Ligyrocoris barberi

Ligyrocoris barberi Sweet - Ligyrocoris barberi

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 Myodochini

Genus Ligyrocoris

Species barberi (Ligyrocoris barberi)

Explanation of Names

Ligyrocoris barberi Sweet 1986

Size

~4.5 mm(1)

Range

se US (NC-FL to KS-TX) (1)(2)]

Remarks

Type Locality: Texas

Print References

Sweet, M.H. (1986) Ligyrocoris barberi (Heteroptera: Lygaeidae) a new seedbug from the southeastern United States with a discussion of its ecology life cycle, and reproductive isolation. J. N.Y. Entomol. Soc. 94: 281–290.

Works Cited

1.	Ligyrocoris barberi (Heteroptera: Lygaeidae), a new seedbug from the southeastern United States... Sweet M.H. 1986. J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. 94: 281-290.

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

Contributed by v belov on 18 July, 2019 - 7:01pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn
Last updated 1 March, 2023 - 12:43pm

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