Genus Myodocha - Long-necked Seed Bugs

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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