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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

Corimelaena lateralis ? - Corimelaena lateralis

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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