ENY 3005 Family Identification

Hemiptera: Lygaeidae

 Common names: seed bugs, chinch bug, milkweed bugs

Identifying characteristics:

• Antennae, 4-segmented; ocelli, 2; beak, 4-segmented; front wing with 4 or 5 veins; tarsi, 3-segmented.
• Antennae arise below line drawn through eyes.
• Second to Miridae in number of species.

Milkweed bug, Oncopeltus sp.

• Pages 122-123 in D. J. Borror and R. E. White. 1970. A Field Guide to the Insects. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co.
• Page 70 in J. A. Slater and R. M. Baranowski. 1978. How to Know the True Bugs. Dubuque, Iowa: Wm. C. Brown Co. 256 p.
• Page 150 in R. G. Bland and H. E. Jaques. 1978. How to Know the Insects, 3rd ed. Dubuque, Iowa: Wm. C. Brown Co. 409 p.
• Page 304 in D. J. Borror, C. A. Triplehorn, and N. F. Johnson. 1989. An Introduction to the Study of Insects, 6th ed. Philadelphia: Saunders College Publishing. 875 p.
• Page 422 in H. V. Daly, J. T. Doyen, and A. H. Purcell III. 1998. Introduction to Insect Biology and Diversity, 2nd ed. Oxford University Press. 680 p.

Families of Hemiptera: Corixidae, Notonectidae, Nepidae, Belostomatidae, Gerridae, Miridae, Phymatidae, Reduviidae, Lygaeidae, Coreidae, Pentatomidae.