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Corizidae
Salient features of adults. Terrestrial.
Phytophagous (commonly on plants with secretory hairs). Small to large; 6–16 mm long; fliers (usually), or non-fliers; relatively stout bodied, or with narrow-elongate bodies; not stilt-legged; without conspicuous dark-and-pale banding of antennae and legs. Head non-linear. Rostrum clearly separated ventrally from the prosternum by a sclerotized gula; 4 segmented. Antennae from the upper part of the head; longer than the head, readily visible from above; 4 segmented; non-aristate. Ocelli present. Scutellum relatively small. Metathorax without laterally visible scent gland openings (or these very reduced). Fore-wings well developed (mostly), or conspicuous, but much shorter than the abdomen; differentiated into a basally thickened and a distally membranous region; with a clavus. Membrane of the hemelytron with numerous veins reaching or almost reaching the margin. Tarsi 3 segmented. The abdomen without ventral silvery pubescence. The second dorsal abdominal scent gland aperture displaced forwards into the fifth tergite, thus close to that of the first gland.
Last antennal segment neither expanded nor darkened.
Taxonomy. Suborder Heteroptera; Coreoidea.
British representation. 10 species in Britain; genera 7. Aeschyntelus, Chorosoma, Corizus, Liorhyssus, Myrmus, Rhopalus, Stictopleurus. E.g., Chorosoma schillingii (Sea-reed Bug).
Illustrations. • Chorosoma schillingii (Original generic description. Marram Bug: B. Ent. 297). • Chorosoma schillingii (detail, dissections: B. Ent. 297). • Chorosoma schillingii (legend+text: B. Ent. 297). Chorosoma Curtis is maintained as a genus, but C. arundinis Curtis is regarded as a synonym of C. schillingi Schummel. • Chorosoma schillingii (text: B. Ent. 297, cont.). • Aeschyntelus, Chorosoma, Corizus, Myrmus, Rhopalus (Southwood and Leston). • Chorosoma schillingi and Myrmus miriformis, with Berrytinidae and Lygaeidae: Saunders, 1892.. RHOPALIDAE. 1, Myrmus miriformis, brachypterous; 1a, Myrmus miriformis, female with developed elytra. 2, Chorosoma schillingi. BERYTINIDAE. 3, Neides tipularius. 4, Berytinus crassipes; 5, Berytinus clavipes. 6, Metatropis rufescens. 7, Gampsocoris punctipes. 10, Cymus glandicolor. LYGAEIDAE. 8, Lygaeus equestris. 9, Nysius ericae. From Saunders (1892). • Aeschyntelus, Coryzus, Rhopalus and Strictopleurs, with Coreidae, Alydus and Stenocephalus: 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’.
