Similar to red-shouldered bug - Melacoryphus rubicollis

Melacoryphus rubicollis Uhler

Merrill Sweet det.
His comment: "This is nomenclaturally and taxonomically a very difficult area in lygaeoid systematics. This species has been often misidentified as M. lateralis, which is a widespread common species in the central and western united states. After much working with my specimens ( I can finally get at them--my collection is at home!) it is definitely M. rubicollis Uhler. The sympatric lateralis has more extensive red coloration extending along the sides of the corium and on the pronotum. Brailovsky has described a bunch of species that may be M. lateralis, as it is very variable."
Moved from Melacoryphus.

… v belov, 11 April, 2009 - 7:58pm

Melacoryphus

Thanks!!!!

… Peter Bryant, 11 April, 2009 - 9:15pm

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… v belov, 18 March, 2009 - 11:50pm

Melacoryphus, i believe

… v belov, 19 February, 2009 - 11:08am

Melacoryphus

Can't find it anywhere on the web. Is the spelling correct?

… Peter Bryant, 19 February, 2009 - 7:12pm

yes, correct. check, e.g., nearctica.com

google gives 37,000 pages

… v belov, 19 February, 2009 - 7:30pm

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… Eric R. Eaton, 11 October, 2007 - 2:13pm

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… Peter Bryant, 27 August, 2007 - 8:09am

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… john and jane balaban, 29 January, 2007 - 8:50pm

Looks similar, but . . .

Hi Peter!

I have compared yours to pictures of Jadera. Your bug probably belongs in Lygaeidae, certainly not in Rhopalidae (as Jadera).

Reason: Rhopalids have a multi-veined membraneus wing tip, while in most Hemipteran families, there are at most five veins.

Yours has (insofar I can see it on the dorsal picture) four veins, the innermost apically branched (making them 5 in all) - a common feature in Lygaidae.

cheers, Boris

… Boris Büche, 5 December, 2006 - 3:13am

Could it be one of the

Neacoryphus ? And Boris, what do you think of

? Is it misplaced?

… john and jane balaban, 17 February, 2007 - 10:14pm

Certainly does have that look

Apparently, not common in California, but here's one:

Comments with that image are interesting.

I've posted and frassed a nymph, discovered by my grandson at Fullerton Arboretum.

… Ron Hemberger, 25 November, 2006 - 6:22pm

Red shoulders

But the one I posted has a red transverse bar across the front of the thorax, which red-shouldered lacks.

… Peter Bryant, 25 November, 2006 - 8:27pm

I wonder if its another Jadera sp.

there are four in North America.

… Hannah Nendick-Mason, 26 November, 2006 - 11:12am

Sounds right

I'm in Kansas, the weather is good, and some red-shouldered bugs are out. I looked at a couple dozen, and none has the stripe that Peter's does.

… Ron Hemberger, 26 November, 2006 - 5:11pm