Large milkweed bug

Large milkweed bug
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Heteroptera
Family: Lygaeidae
Genus: Oncopeltus
Species:
O. fasciatus
Binomial name
Oncopeltus fasciatus
(Dallas, 1852) [1]

Oncopeltus fasciatus, known as the large milkweed bug, is a medium-sized hemipteran (true bug) of the family Lygaeidae.[2] It is distributed throughout North America, from Central America through Mexico and the Caribbean to southern areas in Canada.[2] Costa Rica represents this insect's southern limit.[3] It inhabits disturbed areas, roadsides, and open pastures.[4] Due to this widespread geographic distribution, this insect exhibits varying life history trade-offs depending on the population location, including differences in wing length and other traits based on location.[5][6]

  1. ^ "Oncopeltus fasciatus". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
  2. ^ a b Attisano, A. (2013) Oosorption and migratory strategy of the milkweed bug,Oncopeltus fasciatus. Animal Behaviour 86(3):651-657.
  3. ^ Baldiwn, D.J., Dingle, H. (1986) Geographic variation in the effects of temperature on life history traits in the large milkweed bug Oncopeltus fasciatus. Oecologia 69(1): 64-71.
  4. ^ Dingle, H., Palmer, J.O., Leslie, J.F. (1986) Behaviour genetics of flexible life histories in milkweed bugs (Onceopeltus fasciatus). Evolutionary Genetics of Invertebrate Behavior. New York: Plenum Press.
  5. ^ Dingle, Hugh; Evans, Kenneth E.; Palmer, James O. (1988). "Responses to Selection Among Life-History Traits in a Nonmigratory Population of Milkweed Bugs (oncopeltus Fasciatus)". Evolution. 42 (1): 79–92. doi:10.1111/j.1558-5646.1988.tb04109.x. ISSN 1558-5646. PMID 28563841.
  6. ^ Palmer, James O.; Dingle, Hugh (1986). "Direct and Correlated Responses to Selection Among Life-History Traits in Milkweed Bugs (oncopeltus Fasciatus)". Evolution. 40 (4): 767–777. doi:10.1111/j.1558-5646.1986.tb00536.x. ISSN 1558-5646. PMID 28556157.