Family Oxycarenidae

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Food · Life Cycle · Works Cited

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 Oxycarenidae

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

formerly treated under Lygaeidae

Explanation of Names

Oxycarenidae Stål 1862

Numbers

12 spp. in 6 genera in our area (of which 2 genera with 2 spp. are adventive), ~150 spp. in 23 genera worldwide (over a third of the spp. in Oxycarenus)(1)(2)

Identification

Hemelytra distinctly punctate, at least on the clavi. Central area of scutellum usually not separated from posterior edge of pronotum by a distinct transverse groove. Abdomen at least as long as thorax. Apex of corium and membrane not extending past abdomen. Clavi with median commissure behind scutellum long and present. Scutellum about equal in length to claval commissure. Abdominal sterna not striated. Hind coxae widely separated. Ostiolar peritreme very large and auriculate. Pronotal punctures each with a short glandular hair (3).

key to genera in(4)

Range

worldwide, mostly Old World, esp. Palaearctic & Afrotropical(2); in NA, more diverse in the west(5)

Food

seed-eaters; hosts include plants in a dozen families (there are cotton pests in this family, but not in NA)(2)

Life Cycle

usually univoltine(2)

Works Cited

1.	Dellapé P.M., Henry T.J. (2016) Lygaeoidea species file. Version 5.0

2.	Zoological catalogue of Australia: Hemiptera: Heteroptera (Pentatomomorpha) Cassis G., Gross G.F. 2002. CSIRO Publishing, 751 pp.

3.	Seed Bugs of Virginia (Heteroptera: Lygaeidae) Richard L. Hoffman. 1996. Virginia Museum of Natural History.

4.	Resurrection of the genera Crophius Stål and Mayana Distant from synonymy under Anomaloptera Amyot and Serville... Henry T.J., Dellapé P.M., Scudder G.G.E. 2015. Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. 117: 367-380.

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

Contributed by v belov on 12 April, 2009 - 12:10am
Additional contributions by Arturo Santos
Last updated 19 December, 2020 - 5:05pm

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