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Species Sisamnes claviger

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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 Sisamnes
Species claviger (Sisamnes claviger)
Explanation of Names
Sisamnes claviger (Uhler 1895)
Size
2.5-3 mm(1)
Range
widespread in NA (New England to NC and west to BC-ID-NM)(1)(2)
Habitat
on the ground in dry, sandy, warm fields(1)
Remarks
scarce, usually brachypterous(1)
Works Cited
1.How to Know the True Bugs
Slater, James A., and Baranowski, Richard M. 1978. Wm. C. Brown Company.
2.Checklist of the Hemiptera of Canada and Alaska
Maw, H.E.L., R.G. Foottit, K.G.A. Hamilton and G.G.E. Scudder. 2000. NRC Research Press.