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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 » Anisoscelini » Leptoglossus » Leptoglossus zonatus

Species Leptoglossus zonatus

Classification · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Food · Remarks · See Also · Internet References · Works Cited

Leptoglossus zonatus? - Leptoglossus zonatus

Male, Leptoglossus? - Leptoglossus zonatus - male

Island Insects Southern California - Leptoglossus zonatus

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 Coreoidea (Leatherbugs)

Family Coreidae (Leaf-footed Bugs)

Subfamily Coreinae

Tribe Anisoscelini

Genus Leptoglossus

Species zonatus (Leptoglossus zonatus)

Numbers

Leptoglossus zonatus (Dallas 1852)

Size

19-21 mm(1)

Identification

Two yellowish spots on the forward part of the pronotum along with the small black spots interspersed within are distinctive.

Also has a zigzagging white band across the wings (like some other species).

Expansions of the hind tibiae are also much larger and more jagged than most other species.

Range

so. US (CA-FL) to Brazil(2)(3)(4)

Food

Highly polyphagous(5)

Remarks

may damage a wide variety of crops but is considered rare and of little economic importance(5)

potential vector of diseases in corn(1)

First appeared in LA in 1996 and became the dominant coreid species in Satsuma oranges by 2001(1)

See Also

L. phyllopus, L. balteatus, and L. concolor can also have yellow spots or regions on the pronotum. However, they are different by lacking the small black spots or being merged together.

Internet References

Fact sheet (Chi & Mizell 2010)(1)

Works Cited

1.	University of Florida: Featured Creatures

2.	Livermore L.J.R., Lemaître V.A., Dolling W.R., Webb M.D. Coreoidea species file online. Version 5.0

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.

4.	Heteroptera of concern to southern U.S. Brambila J. 2007. Invasive Arthropod Workshop, Southern Plant Diagnostic Network 7-9 May 2007, Clemson, SC.

5.	Heteroptera of economic importance Schaefer C.W., Panizzi A.R. (eds). 2000. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, 828 pp.

Contributed by Hannah Nendick-Mason on 10 June, 2006 - 1:07pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Mike Quinn, Maury Heiman, v belov, Arturo Santos
Last updated 20 January, 2021 - 10:21am

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