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Small Milkweed Bug

Lygaeus kalmii

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Field Notes

Description:

Adult: dark gray to black with broad orange or red band on forewing, forming an "X" shape that doesn't quite meet in the middle; head black with dull red spot on top, sometimes extending down onto face; pronotum with red transverse band, bordered anteriorly by two black spots, and posteriorly by two black semicircular lobes; membranous portion of forewing all black in eastern specimens
In western specimens, the membranous portion of the forewing is black with large white spots and white posterior margin

Habitat:

Desert Scrub, Oak Scrub 4,000'

Notes:

Yavapai Co AZ Black Canyon

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PublishedAugust 22, 2013

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