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  1. Life
  2. Animals
  3. Arthropods
  4. Insects
  5. True Bugs, Hoppers, Aphids, and Allies
  6. Seed Bugs and Allies
  7. Seed Bugs

family

Seed Bugs

Lygaeidae

Includes
48 native 2 introduced 2 present
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Children

  • Lygaeinae 40 native
  • Orsillinae 6 native
  • Ischnorhynchinae 2 native

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Most observed native seed bugs All

Native to the US, by observations.

  • Large Milkweed Bug Oncopeltus fasciatus 90,407 observations
  • Small Milkweed Bug Lygaeus kalmii 41,339 observations
  • Birch Catkin Bug Kleidocerys resedae 17,826 observations
  • False Milkweed Bug Lygaeus turcicus 17,733 observations
  • White-crossed Seed Bug Neacoryphus bicrucis 4,605 observations
  • Southern Small Milkweed Bug Lygaeus reclivatus 1,908 observations
  • Lygaeid Bug Oncopeltus aulicus 166 observations
  • Mauna Kea Wēkiu Bug Nysius wekiuicola 9 observations
  • Metrarga nuda 1 observations

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