Rhopalidae
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Rhopalidae, or scentless plant bugs, are a family of true bugs. In older literature, the family is sometimes called "Corizidae". They differ from the related coreids in lacking well-developed scent glands. They are usually light-colored and smaller than coreids. Some are very similar to the orsilline lygaeids, but can be distinguished by the many veins in the membrane of the hemelytra. They live principally on weeds, but a few (including the boxelder bug) are arboreal. All are plant feeders. The type genus for the family is Rhopalus. Currently, 30 genera and over 240 species of rhopalids are k
Species
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassInsecta
- OrderHemiptera
- FamilyRhopalidae
Zimtwanze (Corizus hyoscyami) Chorosoma schillingii Liorhyssus hyalinus Rhopalus lepidus Glasflügelwanzen (Rhopalidae) sind eine Familie der Wanzen (Heteroptera) innerhalb der Teilordnung Pentatomomorpha. Von ihnen sind mehr als 209 Arten in etwa 21 Gattungen bekannt. In Europa sind 33 Arten vertreten, von denen in Mitteleuropa 16 vorkommen. Bei vielen Arten ist das Corium der Hemielytren zwischen der Flügeläderung durchsichtig. Der deutschsprachige Trivialname Glasflügelwanzen deutet auf dieses Merkmal hin.
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 1,768
- With media
- 81
- Family
- Rhopalidae
- Collections
- UMNH, UCSB, UAM, SDNHM
- Recorded in
- United States
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- Rhopalidae
- topic's main category
- Category:Rhopalidae
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- Rhopalidae
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- taxon common name
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Rhopalidae, or scentless plant bugs, are a family of true bugs. In older literature, the family is sometimes called "Corizidae". They differ from the related coreids in lacking well-developed scent glands. They are usually light-colored and smaller than coreids. Some are very similar to the orsilline lygaeids, but can be distinguished by the many veins in the membrane of the hemelytra. They live principally on weeds, but a few (including the boxelder bug) are arboreal. All are plant feeders. The type genus for the family is Rhopalus. Currently, 30 genera and over 240 species of rhopalids are known. The oldest fossil rhopalids described are from the Middle Jurassic of Inner Mongolia, discovered from the Haifanggou Formation. They are not considered economically important, with a few species being pests of ornamental trees.
==References==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Rhopalidae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.