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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 » Big-eyed Bugs (Geocoridae) » Big-eyed Bugs (Geocoris) » Geocoris atricolor
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Black bug - Geocoris atricolor
Copyright © 2010 R. Berg

Black bug - Geocoris atricolor
Alameda County, California, USA
January 4, 2010
Size: ~0.1 in., 2.5 mm
Found on the underside of a piece of tree bark on the ground. Showed a strong preference for the undersurface of the bark whenever I inverted the bark to expose the bug.

Looks sort of broken-backed; is it a mirid, then? (Trying to learn.)

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Contributed by R. Berg on 4 January, 2010 - 6:01pm
Last updated 4 January, 2010 - 8:06pm

Moved tentatively
Moved from Big-eyed Bugs.
… v belov, 4 January, 2010 - 8:06pm login or register to post comments

 
ID confirmed by Merrill Sweet
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… v belov, 13 February, 2010 - 10:02pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… R. Berg, 4 January, 2010 - 7:33pm login or register to post comments

I agree with okeller.
You may want to look around here.
… Ken Wolgemuth, 4 January, 2010 - 6:14pm login or register to post comments

 
I looked around there
and more than one species looked like this specimen.
… R. Berg, 4 January, 2010 - 7:32pm login or register to post comments

Looks to me like it belongs i
Looks to me like it belongs into the Family Geocoridae.

Hope that helps
… okeller, 4 January, 2010 - 6:06pm login or register to post comments

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