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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » True Bugs (Heteroptera) » Pentatomomorpha » Lygaeoidea » Dirt-colored Seed Bugs (Rhyparochromidae) » Rhyparochrominae » Drymini » Scolopostethus
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Another urban rhyparochromid - Scolopostethus
Copyright © 2020 Ken Schneider

Another urban rhyparochromid - Scolopostethus
Noe Valley, San Francisco County, California, USA
April 29, 2020
Size: 3 mm
Found in our apartment building entryway and collected. Looks similar in markings to another one I found and collected recently, but much smaller (3 versus ca 7 mm):



The only key to this family that I am aware of is in "How to Know the True Bugs" - I tried it out but got confused quickly - the couplet that refers to an sternal abdominal suture not reaching the margin seems to refer to a figure with the suture going the wrong way...

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Contributed by Ken Schneider on 1 May, 2020 - 12:32pm
Last updated 29 July, 2021 - 8:25am

Moved
Moved from Drymini.
… v belov, 29 July, 2021 - 8:25am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Dirt-colored Seed Bugs.
… v belov, 15 July, 2020 - 4:53am login or register to post comments

 
This one -
also felt to be Scolopostethus tropicus per E. Kondorosy - iNat link here:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/44495306
… Ken Schneider, 5 May, 2021 - 12:57pm login or register to post comments

 
Looks like mine from Santa Cruz...
compare with
… Arthur Scott Macmillan, 4 September, 2020 - 5:39pm login or register to post comments

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