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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 » Ozophora picturata

Species Ozophora picturata

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Season · Works Cited
Plant bug found in leaf litter - Ozophora picturata Seed Bug? - Ozophora picturata Ozophora picturata Female, Ozophora picturata? - Ozophora picturata - female Female, Ozophora picturata? - Ozophora picturata - female 2018-07-26 Dirt-colored seed bug - Ozophora picturata 2018-10-07 Dark-headed dirt-colored seed bug - Ozophora picturata Ozophora picturata ? - Ozophora picturata
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
Species picturata (Ozophora picturata)
Explanation of Names
Ozophora picturata Uhler 1871
Size
6 mm
Identification
Basal part of antennomere 4 white(1). The easiest recognition feature for FL specimens is the distinct crimson streak along the posterior portion of each apical corial margin.(2)
Range
US (e. half & across the south) & ON(3)
Habitat
Forests, especially oak-hickory woodlands
Season
Summer in northern states, but year-round in the south
Works Cited
1.How to Know the True Bugs
Slater, James A., and Baranowski, Richard M. 1978. Wm. C. Brown Company.
2.The genus Ozophora in Florida (Hemiptera: Lygaeidae)
Slater, James A. and Baranowski, Richard M. 1983. Florida Entomological Society.
3.Twenty three true bug state records for Arkansas, with two for Ohio, U.S.A.
Chordas S.W., Tumlison R., Robison H.W., Kremers J. 2011. J. Arkansas Acad. Sci. 65: 153-159.
Contributed by Eric R. Eaton on 8 March, 2006 - 2:44pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, Graham M, v belov, onegunah
Last updated 17 January, 2014 - 10:51am

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