Scentless Plant Bugs (lat. Rhopalidae)

Scentless Plant Bugs
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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 the coreids. Some are very similar to the orsilline lygaeids, but can be distinguished by the numerous veins in the membrane of the hemelytra. They live principally on weeds, but a few (including the box elder bug) are…

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Scentless Plant Bugs: species (5)
banded rhopalid
banded rhopalid

Rhopalidae of Britain

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Arthropods Insects True Bugs Scentless Plant Bugs banded rhopalid Hyaline Grass Bug hypericum rhopalid knapweed rhopalid transparent rhopalid

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banded rhopalid
banded rhopalid
Hyaline Grass Bug
Hyaline Grass Bug
hypericum rhopalid
hypericum rhopalid
knapweed rhopalid
knapweed rhopalid
transparent rhopalid
transparent rhopalid