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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 » Dirt-colored Seed Bugs (Rhyparochromidae) » Rhyparochrominae » Ozophorini » Ozophora

Genus Ozophora

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Works Cited
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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
14 spp. in our area(1), ~110 total(2)
Identification
key to western spp. in (3)
Range
New World, esp. diverse in FL & West Indies; only O. picturata is widespread(4)
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.Dellapé P.M., Henry T.J. (2016) Lygaeoidea species file. Version 5.0
3.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 .
4.The Lygaeidae of Florida (Hemiptera: Lygaeidae).
Slater & Baranowski. 1990. Florida Dept. of Ag. and Consumer Services, Gainesville. xv + 211 pp.
Contributed by Eric R. Eaton on 8 March, 2006 - 2:43pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, v belov, onegunah
Last updated 4 July, 2023 - 5:53pm

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