Identification, Images, & Information
For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada
Home
» Guide »
Arthropods (Arthropoda)
»
Hexapods (Hexapoda)
»
Insects (Insecta)
»
True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera)
»
True Bugs (Heteroptera)
»
Pentatomomorpha
»
Lygaeoidea
»
Blissidae
»
Chinch Bugs (Blissus)
»
Hairy Chinch Bug (Blissus leucopterus)
Photo#877205
Copyright © 2013
Charley Eiseman
Small brachypterous bug -
Blissus leucopterus
Northfield, Franklin County, Massachusetts, USA
September 11, 2013
Size: 3.4 mm
Contributed by
Charley Eiseman
on 19 December, 2013 - 3:55pm
the enlarged apical antennomere rules out Cimicomorpha
Moved from
True Bugs
.
…
v belov
, 19 December, 2013 - 4:00pm
Thanks
I realized I had it wrong as soon as I posted it. My lawn was full of these this fall.
Is this in fact a brachypterous adult, or is it actually a last instar nymph?
…
Charley Eiseman
, 19 December, 2013 - 4:15pm
adult, sure; nymphal wingpads would've been fused w/scutellum
anthocorids do not show up
en masse
; hardly any predators do
…
v belov
, 19 December, 2013 - 4:26pm
Moved
Moved from
Minute Pirate Bugs
.
…
Charley Eiseman
, 19 December, 2013 - 3:58pm