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Tribe Drymini

Anthocoridae? - Eremocoris Hemiptera. Rhyparochromidae. Drymus unus - Drymus unus Eremocoris maybe? - Eremocoris suspect-undescribed-occ 9058241 - Eremocoris semicinctus Eremocoris? - Eremocoris semicinctus Scolopostethus - Scolopostethus pictus Scolopostethus - Scolopostethus pictus Eremocoris
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 Drymini
Explanation of Names
Drymini Stål 1872
Numbers
26 described spp. in 6 genera in our area(1) + a few undescribed; ~300 spp. in 55 genera total(2)
Range
primarily in the Old World; most diverse in the Palaearctic, Afrotropical and Oriental Regions (absent in S.America)(3); in NA, much more diverse in cooler and w. montane areas; only 3 genera represented south of the US border, Eremocoris being by far the most speciose in Mexico(1)
Works Cited
1.A new species of Drymus Fieber from Mexico, with a key to species and a checklist of western hemisphere Drymini (Hem.:Lygaeidae)
Slater J.A., Brailovsky H. 1997. Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. 99: 37-41.
2.Dellapé P.M., Henry T.J. (2016) Lygaeoidea species file. Version 5.0
3.Zoological catalogue of Australia: Hemiptera: Heteroptera (Pentatomomorpha)
Cassis G., Gross G.F. 2002. CSIRO Publishing, 751 pp.
Contributed by v belov on 8 August, 2009 - 3:25am
Last updated 20 September, 2019 - 6:26pm

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