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If you search for the brown stink bug species Euschistus rugifer in iNaturalist, you won't find much; indeed, zero observations entered in the US. Similarly, an entry on BugGuide.net has little more than a few images of a specimen and its structure. Elsewhere, it seems the species is described primarily in literature out of Latin America (ref. Artropodos de Chamela. edited by Alfonso N. García Aldrete, Barajas Ricardo Ayala, 2004). Yet it seems the range of this species may soon include the US, traveling into the country on board shipments of agricultural products. Several news accounts mention records from San Francisco (2014), Arizona and the Rio Grande Valley of Texas, but perhaps the most dramatic is the identification of insects found in a Customs seizure at Dallas-Fort Worth Regional Airport just this month, strikingly far inland for a new incursion. Information on the life history of this species (in English sources, at any rate) is also scarce, but it would seem E. rugifer ...more ↓

Posted on December 24, 2023 09:36 PM by jbryant jbryant | 0 comments | Leave a comment
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Help create a portrait of California stinkbug diversity and distribution by submitting your observations.A field guide to some of the stink bug taxa found in Southern California is now available at http://www.inaturalist.org/guides/887 . Smartphone users can use iNaturalist apps or upload data and image files directly ...more ↓

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