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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » True Bugs (Heteroptera) » Cimicomorpha » Cimicoidea » Minute Pirate Bugs (Anthocoridae) » Xylocorini » Xylocoris » Warehouse Pirate Bug (Xylocoris flavipes)

Species Xylocoris flavipes - Warehouse Pirate Bug

Classification · Explanation of Names · Identification · Range · Habitat · Remarks · Works Cited
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 Cimicomorpha
Superfamily Cimicoidea
Family Anthocoridae (Minute Pirate Bugs)
Tribe Xylocorini
Genus Xylocoris
Species flavipes (Warehouse Pirate Bug)
Explanation of Names
Xylocoris flavipes (Reuter 1875)
Identification
images of adults
Range
prob. of palaeotropical origin, now cosmopolitan; in our area, so. US (MD-GA-TX-AZ)(1); recorded in several European countries but may not be established(2)
Habitat
commonly associated with food products(1)
Remarks
used to control bruchine infestation of stored products
our only representative of the subgenus Arrostelus Kirkaldy 1906
earliest record in our area: AZ 1961(1)
Works Cited
1.The non-indigenous Lyctocoridae and Anthocoridae (Hemiptera : Heteroptera : Cimicoidea) of America North of Mexico
Lattin J.D. 2007. Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. 109: 366-376.
2.Alien terrestrial arthropods of Europe
Roques A., Kenis M., Lees D., Lopez-Vaamonde C., Rabitsch W., Rasplus J.-Y., Roy D., eds. 2010. BioRisk 4 Special Issue; 2 vols., 1028 pp.
Contributed by v belov on 27 November, 2012 - 5:06pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset
Last updated 18 August, 2019 - 6:43pm

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