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| Insects of Britain and Ireland: the families of Hemiptera |
Coriscidae
Salient features of adults. Terrestrial (in coastal and other sandy places).
Phytophagous (on legumes). Large; about 11 mm long; fliers; emitting repugnatorial liquid as a defence reaction; with narrow-elongate bodies; conspicuously stilt-legged to not stilt-legged. Head non-linear. Rostrum clearly separated ventrally from the prosternum by a sclerotized gula; 4 segmented. Antennae from the upper part of the head (dorsal of a line from centre of eye to apex of head); longer than the head, readily visible from above; 4 segmented (the terminal segment characteristically slightly curved); non-aristate. Ocelli present; 2. Scutellum relatively small. Metathorax with a scent-gland opening, comprising a funnel surrounded by a dull patch of elaborately sculptured cuticle, visible laterally on either side (? - cf. Coreidae). Fore-wings well developed to vestigial or absent (?); when macropterous, differentiated into a basally thickened and a distally membranous region; of macropters, with a clavus. Membrane of the hemelytron with numerous veins reaching or almost reaching the margin. Tarsi 3 segmented. Pulvilli present. The abdomen without ventral silvery pubescence. The second dorsal abdominal scent gland aperture not displaced into the fifth tergite, and distant from the first gland.
Grey-brown to almost black, with the upper surface of the abdomen orange-red; hind femora clubbed. The nymphs ant-like.
Taxonomy. Suborder Heteroptera; Coreoidea.
British representation. 1 species in Britain (A. calcaratus); genera 1. Alydus. E.g., Alydus calcaratus (Black-and-red Bellied Alydus).
Illustrations. • Alydus calcaratus (Black-and-red Bellied Alydus: B. Ent. 369). • Alydus calcaratus (detail: B. Ent. 369). • Alydus calcaratus (dissections: B. Ent. 369). • Alydus calcaratus (legend+text: B. Ent. 369). • Alydus calcaratus (text: B. Ent. 369, cont.). • Alydus calcaratus (Southwood & Leston). • Alydus calcaratus, with unrelated taxa: Saunders, 1892.. COREIDAE. 1, Bathysolen nubilus. 2, Ceraleptus lividus. 3, Coriomeris denticulatus. ALYDIDAE. 4, Alydus calcaratus. STENOCEPHALIDAE. 5, Stenocephalus agilis. RHOPALIDAE. 6, Corizus hyoscyami. 7, Strictopleurus punctatonervosus. 8, Aeschyntelus maculatus. 9, Corizus capitatus Fab., = ? (cf. Rhopalus subrufus). 10, Rhopalus parumpunctatus. From Saunders (1892).
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Cite this publication as: ‘Watson, L., and Dallwitz, M.J. 2003 onwards. Insects of Britain and Ireland: the families of Hemiptera. Version: 27th July 2019. delta-intkey.com’.
