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Species Megalotomus quinquespinosus - Lupine Bug

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Lupine bug - Megalotomus quinquespinosus Seed Bug - Megalotomus quinquespinosus Six Minutes with Alpha, Beta, Gamma and Spot-Megalotomus quinquespinosus - Megalotomus quinquespinosus Megalotomus quinquespinosus nymph? (Lupine Bug) - Megalotomus quinquespinosus Lupine Bug - Megalotomus quinquespinosus Unknown insect - Megalotomus quinquespinosus Lupine Bug - Megalotomus quinquespinosus Burtinus notatipennis ? - Megalotomus quinquespinosus

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 Coreoidea (Leatherbugs)
Family Alydidae (Broad-headed Bugs)
Subfamily Alydinae
Genus Megalotomus
Species quinquespinosus (Lupine Bug)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Megalotomus quinquespinosus (Say)
Orig. Comb: Lygaeus quinquespinosus Say, 1825

Size

14-16 mm

Identification

note pale base to antennal clubs (not strictly diagnostic), tip of scutellum white, base of hind femora pale

Range

widely dist. across Canada and the US - Map (1)(2)(3)

Habitat

Edges of deciduous woods

Food

known hosts include mostly legumes, e.g. Baptisia, Ceanothus, Oxytropis, Lupinus, Rhus, Desmodium, Lathyrus venosus, soybeans(4)

Works Cited

1.Checklist of the Hemiptera of Canada and Alaska
Maw, H.E.L., R.G. Foottit, K.G.A. Hamilton and G.G.E. Scudder. 2000. NRC Research Press.
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.
3.Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
4.How to Know the True Bugs
Slater, James A., and Baranowski, Richard M. 1978. Wm. C. Brown Company.
Contributed by Troy Bartlett on 14 March, 2004 - 8:31pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 13 December, 2024 - 1:42pm

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