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Family Rhyparochromidae - Dirt-colored Seed Bugs

Bug ID - Myodocha serripes Dirt-colored seed bug (6) - Paromius longulus Small Hemiptera I can't id - Antillocoris pilosulus Pseudopamera nitidula Male, Ozophora picturata? - Ozophora salsaverdeae - male Cimicomorpha 1124 - Atrazonotus umbrosus Unknown bug Male? Ozophora salsaverdeae? - Ozophora salsaverdeae - male
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)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
formerly treated as subfamily of Lygaeidae(1)(2)(3)
Explanation of Names
Rhyparochromidae Amyot & Serville 1843
Numbers
~170 spp. in >60 genera in our area; 2,160 spp. in ~440 genera of 2 subfamilies & 14 tribes worldwide(4)
Overview of our faunaTaxa not yet in the guide are marked (*); classification follows (4)
Family RHYPAROCHROMIDAE
Subfamily Plinthisinae

Subfamily Rhyparochrominae









Identification
keys in (1)(2)(6)
Range
worldwide and throughout NA
Habitat
see (7)
Food
For most species, primarily seeds. A few spp. prey on insects. Many members of the palaeotropical tribe Cleradini can feed on vertebrate blood. Clerada apicicornis is the only species known to also occur in the New World tropics (probably due to human transport); it consumes vertebrate blood, preys on insects, and is known to bite humans.
Works Cited
1.How to Know the True Bugs
Slater, James A., and Baranowski, Richard M. 1978. Wm. C. Brown Company.
2.The Lygaeidae of Florida (Hemiptera: Lygaeidae).
Slater & Baranowski. 1990. Florida Dept. of Ag. and Consumer Services, Gainesville. xv + 211 pp.
3.Phylogenetic analysis of family groups within the infraorder Pentatomomorpha (Heteroptera), with emphasis on the Lygaeoidea
Henry T.J. 1997. Ann. Ent. Soc. Amer. 90: 275-301.
4.Dellapé P.M., Henry T.J. (2016‒) Lygaeoidea species file
5.A phylogenetic revision of the true bug genus Heraeus (Hemiptera: Rhyparochromidae: Myodochini)...
Dellapé P.M, Melo M.C., Henry T.J. 2016. Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 177: 29–134.
6.Seed Bugs of Virginia (Heteroptera: Lygaeidae)
Richard L. Hoffman. 1996. Virginia Museum of Natural History.
7.The biology and ecology of the Rhyparochrominae of New England (Heteroptera : Lygaeidae) Part II
Sweet, M.H. 1964. Entomologica Americana, 44: 1-201.