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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 » Big-eyed Bugs (Geocoridae)

Family Geocoridae - Big-eyed Bugs

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Food · Works Cited
Bug - Geocoris uliginosus Big-eyed Bug - Geocoris pallens Geocorid - Geocoris uliginosus Geocoris discopterus Geocoris sp. - Geocoris uliginosus Small black bug - Geocoris uliginosus Geocoris punctipes? - Geocoris punctipes Geocoridae-Geocoris? - Geocoris uliginosus
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 Geocoridae (Big-eyed Bugs)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
formerly treated under Lygaeidae
Explanation of Names
Geocoridae Baerensprung 1860
Numbers
~30 spp. in 2 genera in our area (all in Geocorinae), ~300 spp. in 35 genera of 5 subfamilies worldwide; Geocoris, with ~150 spp., is by far the largest genus(1)
Size
~3‒5 mm
Identification
Habitus distinctive, with eyes prominent, partially wrapping around the front angles of the pronotum. Dorsum punctate. Claval commissure very short or absent.
keys in (2)
Range
worldwide and throughout NA(1)
Food
Geocorinae are predatory, members of the other 2 small (extralimital) subfamilies probably granivorous(3)
Works Cited
1.Dellapé P.M., Henry T.J. (2016‒) Lygaeoidea species file
2.A review of the Geocoridae of Mexico (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Lygaeoidea), with descriptions of four new species...
Brailovsky, H. 2016. Zootaxa.
3.Zoological catalogue of Australia: Hemiptera: Heteroptera (Pentatomomorpha)
Cassis G., Gross G.F. 2002. CSIRO Publishing, 751 pp.
Contributed by Lynette Elliott on 3 June, 2005 - 12:54pm
Additional contributions by Robin McLeod, Ted Kropiewnicki, Aaron Schusteff, v belov, jbotz
Last updated 26 July, 2024 - 5:46am

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