Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Corsican Red/black bug

Posted by nick upton on 19-11-2010 21:52
#1
Can anyone identify this red/black Heteropteran bug to family, genus or further?

Corsica 29.5.10 500m c10mm feeding on Crown daisy.

Posted by nick upton on 19-11-2010 21:54
#2
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Posted by rvanderweele on 19-11-2010 22:12
#3
It looks bit like Pyrrhocoris apterus, but, I think it is not. I guess closely related.

Posted by cthirion on 19-11-2010 23:33
#4
Not Pyrrhocoridae!

Posted by nick upton on 19-11-2010 23:46
#5
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...

Posted by pierred on 20-11-2010 09:49
#6
There is a key to black/red bugs here (in French) :
http://www.insect...?article72

Posted by rvanderweele on 20-11-2010 09:54
#7
a pity there is no hemiptera.info

Posted by Xespok on 20-11-2010 15:55
#8
This is a Mirid bug.

Posted by zcuc on 21-11-2010 15:19
#9
Xespok is currect, it belong to family miridae. This is one of the many form of Calocoris nemoralis

Posted by nick upton on 21-11-2010 20:34
#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.