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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » True Bugs (Heteroptera) » Pentatomomorpha » Leatherbugs (Coreoidea) » Leaf-footed Bugs (Coreidae) » Coreinae » Spartocerini » Sephina » Giant Milkweed Bug (Sephina gundlachii)
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Milkweed bug? - Sephina gundlachii
Copyright © 2006 Sharon

Milkweed bug? - Sephina gundlachii
Tavares, Lake County, Florida, USA
April 10, 2006
I originally thought this to be a Milkweed bug, as it is on a Milkweed Vine.
But it doesn't have the same pattern.
Then I thought Milkweed Assassin - but no match there.
So what is he?!
Thanks!
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Contributed by Sharon on 12 April, 2006 - 2:57pm
Last updated 14 November, 2009 - 9:00am

Sephina gundlachi
I was about to upload two images of this insect (adult and nymph), as there was no genus or species page for it, and happened to see this one on the general Coreid page. ID was made using Baranowski & Slater's Coreidae of FL. Host plant is climbing milkweed (Cynanchum scoparium).
… Valerie G. Bugh, 29 May, 2006 - 7:09pm login or register to post comments

 
giant milkweed bug
I believe Val is correct in her ID of this true bug. I'm moving it to the new page I created. This is one of the species we tried, but failed to get for our Milkweed, Monarchs and More (1)

MQ, Austin

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… Mike Quinn, 9 June, 2006 - 1:08pm login or register to post comments

 
Giant Milkweed Bug
If you need more photos of this one - I can post more.
We have alot of climbing milkweed through-out the yard and right now there are various stages of nymphs. They start out cherry red with black legs....
… Sharon, 9 June, 2006 - 1:29pm login or register to post comments

 
Please do post more pix
This bug is on the cover of "Coreidae of Florida" but the only photos I know of are the few posted to BugGuide.net...

MQ, Austin

Texas Beetle Information
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… Mike Quinn, 9 June, 2006 - 3:43pm login or register to post comments

 
Coloring & host plant
Please check out the one I just posted. It has a different color pattern. Is it the same?

http://bugguide.net/node/view/130258/bgimage

Also, all of mine are living on a different milkweed vine than all the literature states. Mine are all on Matelea gonocarpos
… Sharon, 25 July, 2007 - 4:56pm login or register to post comments

 
photos
just posted more photos -
I don't have a macro lens on my good camera so I used my little pocket digital...
So hopefully these are OK...
… Sharon, 10 June, 2006 - 6:26pm login or register to post comments

Coreidae.
Tis a leaf-footed bug from the family Coreidae. Florida has so many different genera and species I have, for the moment, given up trying to ID images from there:-) Do check our existing guide pages for the family, though.
… Eric R. Eaton, 12 April, 2006 - 3:26pm login or register to post comments

...
To me it looks like a Coreid, but I can see no matches in the guide.
-Sean McCann


triatoma.blogspot.com
… Sean McCann, 12 April, 2006 - 3:25pm login or register to post comments

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