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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » True Bugs (Heteroptera) » Pentatomomorpha » Leatherbugs (Coreoidea) » Leaf-footed Bugs (Coreidae) » Coreinae » Anisoscelini » Leptoglossus » Leptoglossus oppositus
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Leptoglossus oppositus
Copyright © 2007 Cotinis

Leptoglossus oppositus
Durham County, North Carolina, USA
August 27, 2006
Size: 18 mm
Detail of head to be used in various guide pages. Note the two ocelli (simple eyes), the red dots just to the inside and below the compound eyes. (Two ocelli, are typical of this family--see comments below.) Note also that the head is much narrower than the pronotum--a feature that distinguishes Coreidae from the rather similar Alydidae (Broad-headed Bugs). This is also a good shot of the tylus, the snout-like projection between the antennae, which is surrounded by the juga.

This also shows a characteristic of this species:
-Lateral pronotal margins non-serrate (Baranowski, Coreidae of Florida)

Now I need to get a good close shot of Acanthocephala for comparison.

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Contributed by Cotinis on 16 March, 2007 - 9:05am
Last updated 27 November, 2021 - 4:01pm

Number of ocelli in Coreids
Fantastic photos! Very helpful for seeing coreid characters. But I can't quite make out third ocellus you refer to at the base of the head. If it were there, it would seem to contradict the BugGuide reference page for Coreidae, which lists "ocelli 2" as a family character (see first bulleted item under "Identification".)
… Aaron Schusteff, 2 August, 2007 - 2:06am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks on ocelli
Well, I guess there are just two ocelli--thanks for the correction.
… Cotinis, 2 August, 2007 - 6:57am login or register to post comments

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