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Species of seed bug in the family Lygaeidae

Lygaeus creticus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Heteroptera
Family: Lygaeidae
Subfamily: Lygaeinae
Genus: Lygaeus
Species: L. creticus
Binomial name
Lygaeus creticus
Lucas, 1853

Lygaeus creticus is a species of seed bug in the family Lygaeidae. It is found in areas around the Mediterranean Sea.

Taxonomy

Lygaeus creticus was first formally named in 1853 by French entomologist Hippolyte Lucas in Essai sur les animaux articulés qui habitent l'île de Crète.

Description

Both nymphs (image) and adults (image) of Lygaeus creticus are aposematically colored.

Reproduction

Egg mean clutch size has been noted as 20.7 ± 1.76 for once‐mated females. Males have been observed to harass female Lygaeus equestris.

Diet

Lygaeus creticus is phytophagous on Nerium oleander and Sorbus cretica.

References

  1. "Lygaeus creticus". iNaturalist.
  2. van der Heyden T (2017). "First records of Lygaeus creticus Lucas, 1854 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Lygaeidae: Lygaeinae) for Albania and France" (PDF). Arquivos Entomoloxicos. 18: 65–6.
  3. ^ "Lygaeus creticus Lucas, 1853". GBIF—the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
  4. Burdfield-Steel ER (2012). The causes and consequences of reproductive interference in the Lygaeidae (Doctoral dissertation) (PDF) (Ph.D. thesis). University of St Andrews.
  5. Burdfield-Steel ER, Shuker DM (June 2014). "The evolutionary ecology of the Lygaeidae". Ecology and Evolution. 4 (11): 2278–301. doi:10.1002/ece3.1093. PMC 4201440. PMID 25360267.
  6. Shuker DM, Currie N, Hoole T, Burdfield-Steel ER (April 1, 2015). "The extent and costs of reproductive interference among four species of true bug". Population Ecology. 57 (2): 321–331. doi:10.1007/s10144-014-0470-1. hdl:10023/6103.
  7. Cianferoni F, Ceccolini F, Dioli P (January 24, 2018). "New records for Lygaeus creticus Lucas, 1854 in Italy and Corsica (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Lygaeidae)". Natural History Sciences (in Italian). 5 (1). doi:10.4081/nhs.2018.346 – via sisn.pagepress.org.
Taxon identifiers
Lygaeus creticus


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