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Classification:

Camptopus lateralis belongs to the subfamily Alydinae.

Distribution:

Palearctic: In Europe, throughout the Mediterranean to the eastern coasts of the Black Sea, Turkey and Cyprus; on the Iberian Peninsula, the Balearic Islands and the Canary Islands.

Habitat:

Grassland; up to altitudes of over 2000 m.

Description:

Length 12 - 15 mm; species with fully developed wings; body with brown base colouring and white margins; head wider than pronotum; antennae with 4 segments; hint femora with four spines; tibiae predominantly yellowish-brown; hint tibiae curved.

Biology:

Adults of Camptopus lateralis can be found on the Iberian Peninsula from January to October and the larvae from June to October. The bugs are polyphagous. They mostly feed on seeds of various species of Fabaceae and Lamiaceae, but have also been observed on Euphorbia characias (Euphorbiaceae), Quercus coccifera (Fagaceae) and Juniperus oxycedrus (Cupressaceae).

References, further reading, links:

1. CoreoideaSF Team (2017). CoreoideaSF: Coreoidea Species File (version 5.0, Dec 2016). In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life, 2017 Annual Checklist (Roskov Y., Abucay L., Orrell T., Nicolson D., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., DeWalt R.E., Decock W., De Wever A., Nieukerken E. van, Zarucchi J., Penev L., eds.). Digital resource at www.catalogueoflife.org/annual-checklist/2017. Species 2000: Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. ISSN 2405-884X.
2. Luis Vivas, André Burgers: Las especies españolas de Alydidae y nuevos datos sobre Heegeria tangirica (Saunders, 1877) en la Península Ibérica (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Coreoidea: Alydidae)
   The Spanish Alydidae species and new data on Heegeria tangirica (Saunders, 1877) on the Iberian Peninsula (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Coreoidea: Alydidae), BVnPC, 4 (54): 64-82 (2015).