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For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada

Tribe Antillocorini

Dirt-colored seed bug - Antillocoris pilosulus Dirt-colored Seed Bug - Antillocoris minutus Unknown True Bug - Antillocoris Unknown small true bug - Antillocoris pilosulus Bug - Antillocoris minutus Botocudo modestus (Barber) - Botocudo modestus Paurocoris punctata (Distant) - Paurocoris punctata Tiny bug - Antillocoris
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 Rhyparochromidae (Dirt-colored Seed Bugs)
Subfamily Rhyparochrominae
Tribe Antillocorini
Explanation of Names
Antillocorini Ashlock 1964
Numbers
8 spp. in 4 genera in our area(1), >90 spp. in 24 genera worldwide(2)
Range
worldwide; most diverse in the Neotropics (no more than five genera in the rest of the world)(2)
Works Cited
1.American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico
Ross H. Arnett. 2000. CRC Press.
2.Zoological catalogue of Australia: Hemiptera: Heteroptera (Pentatomomorpha)
Cassis G., Gross G.F. 2002. CSIRO Publishing, 751 pp.