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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 » Blissidae » Chinch Bugs (Blissus) » Hairy Chinch Bug (Blissus leucopterus)

Species Blissus leucopterus - Hairy Chinch Bug

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Life Cycle · Remarks · See Also · 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 Blissidae
Genus Blissus (Chinch Bugs)
Species leucopterus (Hairy Chinch Bug)
Explanation of Names
Blissus leucopterus (Say 1832)
leucopterus = 'white-winged'
Size
adult about 4 mm
Identification
Wings vary in length (from as long as the body to ⅓-½ body length) and bear a distinctive triangular black mark.
Nymphs & adults (brachypterous & macropterous)
Range
NA east of the Rockies (NS-FL to WY-TX)(1)(2)(3)
Life Cycle
overwinter as adults in protected areas, such as among weeds and grasses near fields.
Remarks
during periods of abundance has caused massive damage to corn and small grains in the midwestem states(2)
See Also
Insidious Flower Bug (Orius insidiosus) is smaller (about 2 mm) and has a cream-colored band in the middle:
Works Cited
1.Checklist of the Hemiptera of Canada and Alaska
Maw, H.E.L., R.G. Foottit, K.G.A. Hamilton and G.G.E. Scudder. 2000. NRC Research Press.
2.How to Know the True Bugs
Slater, James A., and Baranowski, Richard M. 1978. Wm. C. Brown Company.
3.Catalog of the Heteroptera, or True Bugs of Canada and the Continental United States
Thomas J. Henry, Richard C. Froeschner. 1988. Brill Academic Publishers.
Contributed by tom murray on 13 April, 2006 - 12:36pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Robin McLeod, Omar Fahmy, Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 5 July, 2024 - 10:29pm

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