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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 » Blissidae » Toonglasa » Toonglasa umbrata
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Blissidae - Toonglasa umbrata
Copyright © 2014 MJ Hatfield

Blissidae - Toonglasa umbrata
Blankenship Prairie, Woodbury County, Iowa, USA
August 30, 2013
Size: 6 mm
Looks to be the same species as this

Collected at the same location as this but a different collection date
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Contributed by MJ Hatfield on 3 February, 2014 - 11:54am
Last updated 13 July, 2019 - 11:29am

Moved
Moved from Blissidae.
… v belov, 13 July, 2019 - 11:29am login or register to post comments

Toonglasa umbrata
This and the rest of your current Blissidae submissions are surely Toonglasa umbrata. An isolated population has colonized introduced grasses in Woodbury County, Iowa, and vicinity(1). The nature and degree of wing reduction is geographically dependent(2). The latter reference has a species key for the genus that seems consistent. I can just make out what appear be spines on your male's abdominal sterna (a key feature). Can you confirm?
… Edward L. Ruden, 14 April, 2015 - 11:26pm login or register to post comments

 
Thank you.
I will look closer and take photos of the male but not yet. After pointing and labeling the insects, they were given to the owners/managers of the prairie and I will need to borrow them. It will be a while but I will do it.
… MJ Hatfield, 15 April, 2015 - 6:14am login or register to post comments

 
Spines (comment revised)
According to Slater 1983(1), the sternal spines are as they appear in Fig. 8A of Slater 1979(2).

Ischnodemus a similar genus. Let's see what the experts here have to say after you let us know about the spines.
… Edward L. Ruden, 15 April, 2015 - 9:11am login or register to post comments

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