LYGAEIDAE
(seed bugs or ground bugs)

Subtaxon Example images Rank Featured
subtaxa		 No of
images		 No of
ID refs
Chilacis typhae
Bulrush Bug
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 		Species 3 images
Cymus
a genus of seedbugs
Female (Click to open)
 		Genus 2 subtaxa 12 images
Drymus
a genus of ground bugs
Female (Click to open)
 		Genus 2 subtaxa 12 images
Eremocoris
a genus of ground bugs
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 		Genus 1 subtaxa 6 images
Gastrodes grossipes
Pine-cone Bug, Pine Cone Bug
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 		Species 5 images
Graptopeltus lynceus
a ground bug
Female (Click to open)Female (Click to open)
 		Species 19 images
Henestaris laticeps
a ground bug
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 		Species 4 images
Heterogaster urticae
Nettle Groundbug
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 		Species 12 images
Ischnodemus sabuleti
European Cinchbug
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 		Species 41 images
Kleidocerys
a genus of ground bugs
Female (Click to open)
 		Genus 2 subtaxa 12 images
Lygaeus equestris
a ground bug
Species 1 ident. refs
Macrodema micropterum
a ground bug
Male (Click to open)
 		Species 3 images
Megalonotus
a genus of ground bugs
Male (Click to open)Male (Click to open)
 		Genus 4 subtaxa 11 images
Peritrechus
a genus of ground bugs
Male (Click to open)
 		Genus 1 subtaxa 5 images
Rhyparochromus
a genus of ground bugs
Female (Click to open)
 		Genus 1 subtaxa 4 images
Scolopostethus
a genus of ground bugs
Female (Click to open)
 		Genus 3 subtaxa 20 images
Stygnocoris
a genus of ground bugs
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 		Genus 1 subtaxa 1 images
Trapezonotus
a genus of ground bugs
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 		Genus 1 subtaxa 17 images
Lygaeidae (unidentified)
Unidentified Seed Bugs or Ground Bugs
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 		Unidentified 2 images
[Ischnodemus sabuleti agg.]
cinchbugs
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 		Informal 1 subtaxa 41 images
Taxonomic hierarchy:
FamilyLYGAEIDAE (seed bugs or ground bugs)
SuperfamilyLYGAEOIDEA (a superfamily of bugs)
InfraorderPentatomomorpha (an infraorder of bugs)
SuborderHETEROPTERA (true bugs)
OrderHEMIPTERA (bugs)
Division Exopterygota (earwigs, grasshoppers, stoneflies, true bugs, and other insects with wings developing externally)
InfraclassNeoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
SubclassPTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
ClassINSECTA (true insects)
SubphylumHEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
PhylumARTHROPODA (arthropods)
SuperphylumECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
CladeBilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
SubkingdomEUMETAZOA (metazoans)
KingdomANIMALIA (animals)
DomainEukaryota (eukaryotes)
LifeBIOTA (living things)

Identification Works

AuthorYearTitleSource

(Part)

Southampton Natural History Society 2007 Shieldbugs of Southampton http://sotonnhs.org/publications.asp

Pericart, J. 1998 Hemipteres Lygaeidae Euro-mediterraneens (three volumes) Faune de France, Faune No 84, 475+457+489pp, Fédération Française des Sociétés de Science Naturel

LYGAEIDAE (seed bugs or ground bugs) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for LYGAEIDAE (seed bugs or ground bugs)
BioInfoBioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 145 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for LYGAEIDAE (seed bugs or ground bugs)
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