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Genus Stenocoris - Rice Bugs

Rice Bug - Stenocoris Bug - Stenocoris Stenocoris Rice Bug - Stenocoris Grass Bug? ID - Stenocoris Stenocoris sp.? Covington Louisiana  - Stenocoris Long-legged hemipteran - Stenocoris Stenocris? - Stenocoris
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 Coreoidea (Leatherbugs)
Family Alydidae (Broad-headed Bugs)
Subfamily Micrelytrinae
Genus Stenocoris (Rice Bugs)
Explanation of Names
Stenocoris Burmeister 1839
Numbers
2 spp. of the subg. Oryzocoris in our area (filiformis and furcifera); S. (S.) tipuloides reported from VA‒FL & TX(1); >20 spp. in 4 subgenera total(2)
Identification
Photo-based identification barely possible. The key below has been designed by D.R. Swanson based on info provided in Ahmad (1965).
1 Posterior angles of pygophore acutely pointed; claspers crossed over pygophore; posterior margin of female seventh abdoinal sternum always with a short median split (subg. Oryzocoris)...2
Posterior angles of pygophore not acutely pointed; claspers crossed in a socket; posterior margin of female seventh abdominal sternum always medially biolobed, never with a split; [venter pale ochraceous]...S. (Stenocoris) tipuloides
2 Median longitudinal red line on ventral abdominal segments present, sometimes faint; pygophore with posterior processes rounded and pointing posteriorly; basal portions of eighth paratergites largely visible...S. (O.) furcifera
Median longitudinal red line absent; pygophore with posterior processes pointed and facing each other; basal portions of eighth paratergites largely concealed by first pair of gonocoxae...S. (O.) filiformis
Range
se US to Argentina(2)
Remarks
our only representative of the tropical tribe Leptocorisini, that contains a total of 46 spp. in 5 genera(2)
Works Cited
1.How to Know the True Bugs
Slater, James A., and Baranowski, Richard M. 1978. Wm. C. Brown Company.
2.Livermore L.J.R., Lemaître V.A., Dolling W.R., Webb M.D. Coreoidea species file online. Version 5.0