Identification, Images, & Information
For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada
Clickable Guide
Moths Butterflies Flies Caterpillars Flies Dragonflies Flies Mantids Cockroaches Bees and Wasps Walkingsticks Earwigs Ants Termites Hoppers and Kin Hoppers and Kin Beetles True Bugs Fleas Grasshoppers and Kin Ticks Spiders Scorpions Centipedes Millipedes

Calendar

TaxonomyBrowse
Info
ImagesLinksBooksData

Genus Ozophora

Ozophora cf. picturata - Ozophora picturata Plant Bug - Ozophora picturata Bug ID - Ozophora picturata Bug ID - Ozophora picturata Bug ID - Ozophora picturata Seed Bug sp.? - Ozophora picturata Rhyparochromid - Ozophora depicturata Ozophora depicturata? - Ozophora salsaverdeae
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 Ozophorini
Genus Ozophora
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Davila Distant, Peggichisme Kirkaldy
Explanation of Names
Ozophora Uhler 1871
Greek ozo 'smell' + phora 'carrier'
Numbers
17‒18 spp. in our area(1)(2)(3), ~110 total(4)
not yet in the guide:
O. angustata Barber 1948 · TX
O. caroli Slater & Baranowski 1983 · FL ?Mexico
O. concava (Distant 1893) · ?AZ Mesoamerica
O. divaricata Barber 1954 · FL W.Ind
O. floridana Slater & Baranowski · 1983 FL
O. gilva Slater & Baranowski · 1983 FL
O. heydoni Barber & Ashlock 1960 · FL W.Ind
O. levis Slater & Baranowski 1983 · FL
O. reperta Blatchley 1926 (inornata Barber 1954) · FL W.Ind
O. unicolor Uhler 1894 ?CA; Mexico
Identification
key to western spp. in (5)
Range
New World, esp. diverse in FL & West Indies; only O. picturata is widespread(2)
Works Cited
1.Catalog of the Heteroptera, or True Bugs of Canada and the Continental United States
Thomas J. Henry, Richard C. Froeschner. 1988. Brill Academic Publishers.
2.The Lygaeidae of Florida (Hemiptera: Lygaeidae).
Slater & Baranowski. 1990. Florida Dept. of Ag. and Consumer Services, Gainesville. xv + 211 pp.
3.The first occurrence of Ozophora heydoni in Florida with the description of a new species of Ozophora from the Neotropics...
Slater J.A., Baranowski R.M. 1995. Fla. Entomol. 78: 314‒318.
4.Dellapé P.M., Henry T.J. (2016) Lygaeoidea species file. Version 5.0
5.The Ozophorini of the Western United States and Baja California (Hemiptera: Lygaeidae)
James A.Slater. 1988. Journal of the New York Entomological Society, 96(1): 91-109 .