Seed bug

Elasmolomus v-album

Classification

Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Family: Rhyparochromidae

The western conifer seed bug (Leptoglossus occidentalis), sometimes called the pine-beetle, or abbreviated as WCSB, is a species of true bug (Hemiptera) in the family Coreidae. It is native to North America west of the Rocky Mountains (California to British Columbia, east to Idaho, Minnesota, and Nevada) but has in recent times expanded its range to eastern North America, to include Ontario, Québec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Michigan, Maine, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, and Wisconsin, and has…

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

Sources and credits

Photo(c) Claas Damken, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), uploaded by Claas Damken · CC-BY-SA DescriptionWestern conifer seed bug, Wikipedia contributors

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