Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods) ➔ Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods) ➔ Class Insecta (Insects) ➔ Order Hemiptera (Hemipterans) ➔ Family Lygaeidae (Groundbugs or seedbugs )

Arocatus melanocephalus (Fabricius, 1798)

Ulmenwanze Elm Seed Bug

Synonyms and other combinations:

Lygaeus melanocephalus Fabricius, 1798 |

  • Arocatus melanocephalus 9889
    Arocatus melanocephalus (Fabricius, 1798)  Ulmenwanze  Elm Seed Bug 
    Arocatus melanocephalus
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    Image number: 9889

    DE, Chemnitz, Markersdorf
    2021-04-01 14:32:39
  • Arocatus melanocephalus, bottom view 9890
    Arocatus melanocephalus (Fabricius, 1798)  Ulmenwanze  Elm Seed Bug 
    Arocatus melanocephalus, bottom view
    DE, Chemnitz, Markersdorf; 2021-04-01 14:29:50
    Image number: 9890
    bottom view
    DE, Chemnitz, Markersdorf
    2021-04-01 14:29:50

Classification:
Arocatus melanocephalus belongs to the subfamily Lygaeinae.
Distribution:
Europe (Andorra, Austria, Bosnia Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Moldavia, Montenegro, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Ukraine); Asia (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Turkey, China (Xinjiang)); introduced to North America.
Habitat:
Elms (Ulmus) and their surroundings

References, further reading, links:
  1. de Jong, Y.S.D.M. (ed.) (2013) Fauna Europaea version 2.6.2 Web Service available online at https://fauna-eu.org/
  2. Cuiqing Gao, Előd Kondorosy, Wenjun Bu: A Review of the Genus Arocatus from Palaearctic and Oriental Regions (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Lygaeidae), The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 2013 61(2): 687–704.
  3. Hans-Jürgen Hoffmann & Lars Terme: Zum Erstnachweis und Massenvorkommen der Ulmenwanze Arocatus melanocephalus (Fabricius, 1798) (Heteroptera, Lygaeidae) in Dortmund / Nordrhein-Westfalen, Heteropteron, Heft 38/2012, 27-30, ISSN 1432-3761 print/ ISSN 2195-1586 online.