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Species Lyctocoris campestris

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 Cimicomorpha

Superfamily Cimicoidea

Family Lyctocoridae

Genus Lyctocoris

No Taxon (subgenus Lyctocoris)

Species campestris (Lyctocoris campestris)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Nesidiocheilus hawaiiensis Kirkaldy 1902

Explanation of Names

Lyctocoris campestris (Fabricius 1794)

campestris 'of fields'

Size

3.8‒4.8 mm

Identification

ferruginous, shining, legs testaceous; hemelytra slightly shorter and narrower than the abdomen; membranous portion transparent, apex broadly fuscous

Range

e.NA (so.Canada to UT‒TX‒FL) - Map (1)(2), cosmopolitan, native probably to w.Palaearctic(3)

Habitat

semi-domestic; common in granaries, houses, haystacks, bird/mammal nests(4); often associated with domestic animals, stored-grain, and other products(5)

Remarks

earliest record in our area: 1852 [as Xylocoris americanus](5)

known to probe human skin(6), rather painfully

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.	Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)

3.	Alien terrestrial arthropods of Europe Roques A., Kenis M., Lees D., Lopez-Vaamonde C., Rabitsch W., Rasplus J.-Y., Roy D., eds. 2010. BioRisk 4 Special Issue; 2 vols., 1028 pp.

4.	How to Know the True Bugs Slater, James A., and Baranowski, Richard M. 1978. Wm. C. Brown Company.

5.	The non-indigenous Lyctocoridae and Anthocoridae (Hemiptera : Heteroptera : Cimicoidea) of America North of Mexico Lattin J.D. 2007. Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. 109: 366‒376.

6.	Medical and Veterinary Entomology Gary Mullen, Lance Durden. 2002. Academic Press.

Contributed by v belov on 23 March, 2009 - 9:50pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn
Last updated 13 March, 2025 - 4:39pm

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