Troilus luridus

Paunch bedbug ( Troilus luridus )

The paunch bedbug ( Troilus luridus ) is a bug from the family of stink bugs.

Description

Pot belly bugs have a length of 11 mm to 13 mm. Your pronotum shows the front side edge of bright teeth. The lateral edges of the pronotum are strongly rounded. On the belly, the pot belly bug on the second sternite a forwardly inclined hump on who has contributed to the naming. It is colored gray to dark brown; However, head, side corners of the pronotum and scutellum are black, possibly with a green or purple brazen shine. The penultimate antennal segment is striped yellow at the top, which is not yet to be pronounced in larvae. The light base with dark spots is underway often red in autumn. In nymphs the abdominal segments are white or reddish, yellowish also, cream -colored or bronze tones may predominate.

Habitat and behavior

The paunch bedbug comes to wet marsh, meadows and forest edges on front bushes as on foliage - like conifers and is there different insects (butterflies, Hautflüglerlarven, beetle larvae such as beetles, aphids and larger caterpillars ) to. From birds she is shunned because of their glandular secretion. As the Imago pot belly bug overwinters under bark, in leaf litter or dry moss. Paired is in the spring. The oviposition ( about 20 eggs per clutch, a total of about up to 200 eggs) occurs at planting May to August. First, the young nymphs suck plant juices before they go to predatory diet.

Dissemination

Their occurrence is Palaearctic (Europe, Asia, Siberia ).