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Oncopeltus fasciatus (large milkweed bug)

Synonyms: Erythrischius fasciatus; Lygaeus aulicus (heterotypic); Lygaeus fasciatus
Language: French

Wikipedia Abstract

Oncopeltus fasciatus, known as the large milkweed bug, is a medium-sized hemipteran (true bug) of the family Lygaeidae. It is distributed throughout North America. It ranges from Central America through Mexico and the Caribbean to southern areas in Canada. Costa Rica represents this insects southern limit. It inhabits disturbed areas, roadsides and open pastures. Due to this widespread geographic distribution this insect exhibits varying life history trade-offs depending on the population location.
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Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Carlsbad Caverns National Park II 15448 New Mexico, United States

Prey / Diet

Asclepias fascicularis (narrowleaf milkweed)[1]
Asclepias syriaca (broadleaf milkweed)[1]
Asclepias tuberosa (Butterfly milkweed)[1]
Crotalaria pallida (smooth rattlebox)[1]
Gomphocarpus physocarpus (balloonplant)[1]

Consumers

External References

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 2Robertson, C. Flowers and insects lists of visitors of four hundred and fifty three flowers. 1929. The Science Press Printing Company Lancaster, PA.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0