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Species Pseudopachybrachius vinctus

Pseudopachybrachius vinctus Pseudopachybrachius vinctus Pseudopachybrachius vinctus? - Pseudopachybrachius vinctus Dirt-colored Seed Bug - Pseudopachybrachius vinctus Dirt-colored Seed Bug - Pseudopachybrachius vinctus Pseudopachybrachius sp.? - Pseudopachybrachius vinctus Pseudopachybrachius vinctus  - Pseudopachybrachius vinctus Might this be Pseudopachybrachius vinctus - Pseudopachybrachius vinctus
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 Pseudopachybrachius
Species vinctus (Pseudopachybrachius vinctus)
Explanation of Names
Pseudopachybrachius vinctus (Say 1832)
Size
2.8-3.0 mm(1)
Identification

Det. M.S. Sweet, 2010
Range
PA-MO-TX & CA(2) [though only NC-FL listed in the slightly more recent treatment(1)]
Season
mostly: May-Oct (BG data)
Remarks
common in c. TX in mid-summer
Works Cited
1.The Lygaeidae of Florida (Hemiptera: Lygaeidae).
Slater & Baranowski. 1990. Florida Dept. of Ag. and Consumer Services, Gainesville. xv + 211 pp.
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.