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Drymus brunneus
Species
Drymus brunneus
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
Drymini
Genus
Drymus
Species
brunneus
(Drymus brunneus)
Explanation of Names
Drymus brunneus
(Sahlberg 1848)
Size
4-5 mm
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1
)
Range
adventive in w. & e. NA: BC, Greater Vancouver area
(
2
)
(
3
)
and ON, Greater Toronto Area
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4
)
, native to the Palaearctic (across n. Eurasia)
(
5
)
,
Remarks
earliest NA record: 1966
(
2
)
; most of the New World specimens are fully macropterous
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3
)
Internet References
Species page
(Bantock & Botting 2010)
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1
)
Works Cited
1.
Bantock T., Botting J. (2010‒) British Bugs, an online identification guide to UK Hemiptera
2.
Alien true bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) in Canada: composition and adaptations
Scudder G.G.E., Foottit R.G. 2006. Can. Entomol. 138: 24-51.
3.
Drymus brunneus (Sahlberg) (Hemiptera: Rhyparochromidae) a seed bug introduced into North America
G.G.E Scudder, L.M. Humble & T. Loh. 2011. J. Entomol. Soc. Brit. Columbia 108: 1-5.
4.
The first eastern North American records for the introduced European rhyparochromids Drymus brunneus (Sahlberg) and Raglius...
S.M. Paiero, S.P.L. Luk & D. Beaton. 2020. J. Entomol. Soc. Ontario 151: 25-31.
5.
Keys to the insects of the Far East of the USSR, Vol. 2. Homoptera and Heteroptera
Lehr, P. A., ed. 1988. Leningrad, Nauka Publishing House.
Contributed by
Tim Loh
on 13 April, 2011 - 1:28pm
Additional contributions by
Mike Quinn
,
Stephen Luk
,
v belov
Last updated 29 April, 2023 - 3:40pm