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

genus

Lygaeus

Lygaeus

Includes
5 native
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Children

  • Small Milkweed Bug Complex 2 native
  • Lygaeus analis 1 native
  • False Milkweed Bug native
  • Lygaeus truculentus presumed native
  • Lygaeus Equestris / Simulans Complex

Range

United States

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

Most observed native Lygaeus All

Native to the US, by observations.

  • Small Milkweed Bug Lygaeus kalmii 41,339 observations
  • False Milkweed Bug Lygaeus turcicus 17,733 observations
  • Southern Small Milkweed Bug Lygaeus reclivatus 1,908 observations

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