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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 » Pachygronthidae » Phlegyas » Phlegyas abbreviatus

Species Phlegyas abbreviatus

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Food · Works Cited
Phlegyas abbreviatus? - Phlegyas abbreviatus Phlegyas abbreviatus bugs aspirated from inflorescences of Chasmanthium latifolium - Phlegyas abbreviatus Phlegyas abbreviatus (Uhler) - Phlegyas abbreviatus Phlegyas abbreviatus Species ID possible? - Phlegyas abbreviatus Phlegyas abbreviatus Lygaeidae - Phlegyas abbreviatus
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 Pachygronthidae
Genus Phlegyas
Species abbreviatus (Phlegyas abbreviatus)
Explanation of Names
Phlegyas abbreviatus (Uhler 1876)
abbreviatus = 'shortened' (ref. to the short wings)
Size
3.5-4.5 mm(1)
Identification
Yellowish to chestnut with extensive black markings (particularly on pronotal calli) as 4 streaks on posterior pronotal lobe, as a median scutellar stripe and on apical corial margin. Mostly submacropterous or brachypterous(1)
Range
e. NA to CA (QC-FL to MN-CA) to Nicaragua - Map (2)(3)(4), mostly e. NA
Food
Grass feeder(1)
Works Cited
1.The Lygaeidae of Florida (Hemiptera: Lygaeidae).
Slater & Baranowski. 1990. Florida Dept. of Ag. and Consumer Services, Gainesville. xv + 211 pp.
2.Dellapé P.M., Henry T.J. (2016) Lygaeoidea species file. Version 5.0
3.Catalog of the Heteroptera, or True Bugs of Canada and the Continental United States
Thomas J. Henry, Richard C. Froeschner. 1988. Brill Academic Publishers.
4.Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
Contributed by Lynette Elliott on 10 July, 2005 - 5:18pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov, onegunah
Last updated 4 March, 2024 - 2:38pm

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