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Species Ochrimnus mimulus - Ochrimnus (Phaeochrimnus) mimulus

Ochrimnus mimulus nymph (on Baccharis neglecta) - Ochrimnus mimulus

Ochrimnus mimulus nymph - Ochrimnus mimulus

seed bug – Ochrimnus mimulus? - Ochrimnus mimulus

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 Lygaeidae (Seed Bugs)

Subfamily Lygaeinae

Genus Ochrimnus

Species mimulus (Ochrimnus (Phaeochrimnus) mimulus)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Ochrimnus mimulus (Stål)

Orig. Comb: Melanocoryphus mimulus Stål 1874

Numbers

6 spp. (in 3 subgenera) n. of Mex. (1)

Size

5-6 mm

Identification

Dorsum of head yellow on either side of midline in front of eyes;

femora brown with base and apex pale yellow (2)

Det. Iustin Cret, 2019

Range

coastal states: TX-FL-VA / n. Mex. - Map (3)(1)(Gould and Sweet 2000), plus KS (BG data) and AZ-NM (4)

Season

Apr-Nov (BG data)

Life Cycle

univoltine seed predator occurring on Baccharis sp. and other Asteraceae (Gould & Sweet 2000)

Remarks

our only representative of the subgenus Phaeochrimnus (9 spp., se. US to Brazil) (2)

Print References

Gould, G.G. and M.H. Sweet. 2000 The host range and oviposition behavior of Ochrimnus mimulus (Hemiptera: Lygaeidae) in Central Texas. Southwestern Naturalist 45(1): 15-23. (JSTOR)

Palmer, W.A. 1986. Host speciﬁcity of Ochrimnus mimulus (Stål) (Hemiptera: Lygaeidae) with notes on its phenology. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 88: 451–454.

Works Cited

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

2.	A Genus Level Revision of Western Hemisphere Lygaeinae (Heteroptera: Lygaeidae) with Keys to Species Alex Slater. 1992. University of Kansas Science Bulletin.

3.	A Catalogue of the Lygaeidae of the World. Slater, J.A. 1964. University of Connecticut, Storrs. xviii + 1668 pp.

4.	iNaturalist

Contributed by Ted Kropiewnicki on 19 February, 2009 - 11:06am
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 28 February, 2023 - 3:43pm

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