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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » True Bugs (Heteroptera) » Pentatomomorpha » Lygaeoidea » Artheneidae » Chilacis » Bulrush Bug (Chilacis typhae)

Species Chilacis typhae - Bulrush Bug

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Range · Habitat · Food · Remarks · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
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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 Artheneidae
Genus Chilacis
Species typhae (Bulrush Bug)
Explanation of Names
Chilacis typhae (Perris 1857)
Size
4-5 mm(1)
Range
across Canada and northern US - Map (2)(3)(4), native to the Palaearctic, adventive in NA
Habitat
Marsh
Food
on cattails (=UK bulrush, hence the common name)
Remarks
earliest NA record: DE 1986(2)
Print References
Perris, E. (1857) Nouvelles excursions dans les Grandes Landes. Ann. Soc. linn. Lyon ns. 4: 83–180.
Internet References
British Bugs (Bantock & Botting 2010)(1)
Lygaeoidea Species File - LSF
Works Cited
1.Bantock T., Botting J. (2010‒) British Bugs, an online identification guide to UK Hemiptera
2.Alien true bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) in Canada: composition and adaptations
Scudder G.G.E., Foottit R.G. 2006. Can. Entomol. 138: 24-51.
3.Additional provincial and state records for Heteroptera (Hemiptera) in Canada and the United States
Scudder G.G.E. 2012. J. Ent. Soc. Brit. Columbia 109: 55−69.
4.Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
Contributed by v belov on 31 May, 2009 - 11:19pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, Vox Sciurorum
Last updated 11 July, 2023 - 11:31am

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