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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » True Bugs (Heteroptera) » Pentatomomorpha » Lygaeoidea » Dirt-colored Seed Bugs (Rhyparochromidae) » Rhyparochrominae » Myodochini » Long-necked Seed Bugs (Myodocha)

Genus Myodocha - Long-necked Seed Bugs

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Food · Life Cycle · Works Cited
Myodocha serripes? - Myodocha serripes Long-necked Seed Bug - Myodocha serripes Seed Bug - Myodocha serripes BG2853 E1385 - Myodocha serripes Long-necked Seed Bug - Myodocha serripes Myodocha serripes - female Long-necked Seed Bug? - Myodocha serripes Myodocha serripes (Long-Necked Seed Bug) - Myodocha serripes
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 Myodochini
Genus Myodocha (Long-necked Seed Bugs)
Explanation of Names
Myodocha Latreille 1807
Numbers
2 spp. in our area, 7 spp. total worldwide (mostly neotropical)(1)
Size
8-10 mm
Identification
base of antennomere 4 uniformly dark in M. serripes, with pale ring in M. annulicornis
Range
mostly neotropical; in our area, M. serripes is common and widespread (e. US to CO-NM; so. Canada), M. annulicornis is confined to FL(1)
Food
seeds of strawberry and st. johnswort, plus other herbaceous plants
Life Cycle
adults overwinter in woodland leaf litter(1)
Works Cited
1.The Lygaeidae of Florida (Hemiptera: Lygaeidae).
Slater & Baranowski. 1990. Florida Dept. of Ag. and Consumer Services, Gainesville. xv + 211 pp.
Contributed by Robin McLeod on 4 October, 2004 - 9:56pm
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 9 November, 2012 - 2:14pm

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