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 Corsican Red/black bug
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| nick upton |
Posted on 19-11-2010 21:52
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Member Location: Wiltshire, UK Posts: 828 Joined: 12.03.10 |
Can anyone identify this red/black Heteropteran bug to family, genus or further? Corsica 29.5.10 500m c10mm feeding on Crown daisy. nick upton attached the following image:  [176.64Kb] Nick Upton - naturalist and photographer |
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| nick upton |
Posted on 19-11-2010 21:54
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Member Location: Wiltshire, UK Posts: 828 Joined: 12.03.10 |
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nick upton attached the following image:  [161.82Kb] Nick Upton - naturalist and photographer |
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| rvanderweele |
Posted on 19-11-2010 22:12
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Member Location: Leiden, the Netherlands Posts: 1988 Joined: 01.11.06 |
It looks bit like Pyrrhocoris apterus, but, I think it is not. I guess closely related.
ruud van der weele rvanderweele@gmail.com |
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| cthirion |
Posted on 19-11-2010 23:33
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Member Location: Awirs (Flémalle) Belgique Posts: 901 Joined: 13.08.04 |
Not Pyrrhocoridae!
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| nick upton |
Posted on 19-11-2010 23:46
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Member Location: Wiltshire, UK Posts: 828 Joined: 12.03.10 |
I don't have any keys, but have looked at a lot of pictures of a lot of black/red heteropterans and it seems there are many families with quite similar looking members eg Ropalidae, Lygaeidae, but none have quite the same patterning. I believe P apterus is wingless as the name suggests (other Pyrrhocoridae too maybe..) and this has wings. I think this will take a bug expert...
Nick Upton - naturalist and photographer |
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| pierred |
Posted on 20-11-2010 09:49
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 Member Location: Paris (France) Posts: 1475 Joined: 21.04.05 |
There is a key to black/red bugs here (in French) : http://www.insect...?article72 Pierre Duhem |
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| rvanderweele |
Posted on 20-11-2010 09:54
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Member Location: Leiden, the Netherlands Posts: 1988 Joined: 01.11.06 |
a pity there is no hemiptera.info
ruud van der weele rvanderweele@gmail.com |
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| Xespok |
Posted on 20-11-2010 15:55
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 Member Location: Debrecen, Hungary Posts: 5551 Joined: 02.03.05 |
This is a Mirid bug.
Gabor Keresztes Japan Wildlife Gallery Carpathian Basin Wildlife Gallery |
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| zcuc |
Posted on 21-11-2010 15:19
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Member Location: Israel Posts: 492 Joined: 08.10.07 |
Xespok is currect, it belong to family miridae. This is one of the many form of Calocoris nemoralis |
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| nick upton |
Posted on 21-11-2010 20:34
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Member Location: Wiltshire, UK Posts: 828 Joined: 12.03.10 |
Many thanks all, especially Gabor and Zcuc for placing it to family and species. Great work! I can see now how amazingly varied the colour forms of this bug are, and I could easily have overlooked it by seeing other colour morphs in photos. Who needs hemiptera.info with bug experts checking this site! Actually I was close to trying insecte.org which has many insect group subsections, but am not sure if my french is up to it and can't work out if I can post images there directly or not.
Nick Upton - naturalist and photographer |
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