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    Pyrrhocoridae is a family of insects with more than 300 species world-wide. Many are red coloured and are known as red bugs and some species are called...
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    Dysdercus cingulatus (category Pyrrhocoridae)
    Dysdercus cingulatus is a species of true bug in the family Pyrrhocoridae, commonly known as the red cotton stainer. It is a serious pest of cotton crops...
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    Scantius aegyptius (category Pyrrhocoridae)
    aegyptius, the Mediterranean red bug, is a species of red bug in the family Pyrrhocoridae, that is a pest of plant species in the family Malvaceae. These ground-dwelling...
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    Pyrrhocoris apterus (category Pyrrhocoridae)
    The firebug, Pyrrhocoris apterus, is a common insect of the family Pyrrhocoridae. Easily recognizable due to its striking red and black coloration, it...
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    Pyrrhocoris (category Pyrrhocoridae)
    Pyrrhocoris is a genus of true bugs in the family Pyrrhocoridae, the cotton stainers. Records of occurrence are mainly in the Palaearctic realm, with...
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    Dysdercus (category Pyrrhocoridae)
    Dysdercus is a widespread genus of true bugs in the family Pyrrhocoridae; a number of species attacking cotton bolls may be called "cotton stainers"....
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  • mechanism in Arhaphe cicindeloides Walker (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pyrrhocoridae). The Pan-Pacific Entomologist 34: 217-219. Stridulation Sounds of Black...
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    taxonomy and distribution of some Palaearctic and Oriental Largidae and Pyrrhocoridae (Heteroptera)". Zoosystematica Rossica. 8: 121–128. Distant, WL (1904)...
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    Rhyparochromidae (atypical seed bugs) Piesmatidae (ash-grey leaf bugs) Pyrrhocoroidea Pyrrhocoridae (red bugs, cotton stainers) Largidae (bordered plant bugs)...
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    In this "true bug", Dysdercus decussatus, in the family Pyrrhocoridae, the specific epithet refers to the bandolier-like markings on the back....
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