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| Blissus insularis | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hemiptera |
| Suborder: | Heteroptera |
| Family: | Blissidae |
| Genus: | Blissus |
| Species: | B. insularis |
| Binomial name | |
| Blissus insularis Barber, 1918 | |
Blissus insularis, the southern chinch bug, is a species of true bug in the family Blissidae.[1][2] It is found in North America and Oceania.[2] The southern chinch bug is known to be a pest due to its feeding on St. Augustine grass. [3]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Blissus insularis Species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 1 February 2018.
- 1 2 "Blissus insularis Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 1 February 2018.
- ↑ Reinert, James A. (15 September 1978). "Natural Enemy Complex of the Southern Chinch Bug1 in Florida2". Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 71 (5): 728–731. doi:10.1093/aesa/71.5.728. ISSN 1938-2901.
- Nishida, Gordon M., ed. (2003). "Hawaiian Terrestrial Arthropod Checklist, 4th ed.". Bishop Museum Technical Reports no. 22, iv + 313.
- Thomas J. Henry, Richard C. Froeschner. (1988). Catalog of the Heteroptera, True Bugs of Canada and the Continental United States. Brill Academic Publishers.
Further reading
[edit]- Ross H. Arnett (30 July 2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press. ISBN 978-0-8493-0212-1.
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