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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » True Bugs (Heteroptera) » Pentatomomorpha » Pentatomoidea » Ebony Bugs (Thyreocoridae)

Family Thyreocoridae - Ebony Bugs

Classification · Other Common Names · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Identification · Habitat · Food · Internet References · Works Cited
Black little ball Negro Bug - Corimelaena agrella - female Coleoptera Corimelaena incognata (McAtee & Malloch) - Corimelaena incognita - male cluster of hemipterans - Corimelaena Thyreocoridae - Corimelaena Corimelaena sp? - Corimelaena Bug from Solidago speciosa - Galgupha
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 Pentatomoidea
Family Thyreocoridae (Ebony Bugs)
Other Common Names
"Negro Bug" - early name to be avoided
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Corymelaenidae
often treated as part of Cydnidae (Thyreocorinae and Corymelaeninae)(1)
Explanation of Names
Thyreocoridae Amyot & Serville 1843
Numbers
>40 spp. in 4 genera in our area (all in the Corimelaeninae)(2), TBA spp. in genera worldwide
Size
3-6 mm(3)
Identification
Shiny black, broad oval, convex shape. Tibiae have no spines or slender ones. Large scutellum covers most of abdomen and wings. Look like beetles but have 5-segmented antennae and 4-segmented beak.(3)
Habitat
on short vegetation(4)
Food
feed on flowers and developing seeds(4)
Internet References
Key to FL spp. (Andersen et al. 2002)
Works Cited
1.Biodiversity of the Heteroptera
Henry T.J. 2009. In: Foottit R.G., Adler P.H., eds. Insect biodiversity: Science and society. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell: 223−263.
2.American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico
Ross H. Arnett. 2000. CRC Press.
3.A Field Guide to Insects
Richard E. White, Donald J. Borror, Roger Tory Peterson. 1998. Houghton Mifflin Co.
4.An updated synopsis of the Pentatomoidea (Heteroptera) of Michigan
Swanson D.R. 2012. Great Lakes Entomologist 45: 263-311.
Contributed by Mike Boone on 11 September, 2004 - 3:44pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, Stephen_WV, Chuck Entz, Mike Quinn, v belov, Harsi S. Parker, Kyhl Austin
Last updated 23 March, 2017 - 9:48am

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