Heteroptera of Slovenia

Pentatomomorpha

Lygaeidae

Spilostethus pandurus (Scopoli, 1763)

Lygaeus militaris (Fabricius, 1775)

On a seed pod of Vincetoxicum hirundinaria. The bugs get protection from the poisonous substance of this plant. That is the message of the warning coloration.

 

Phytophagous species, feeding on many different plants.

Rastlinojeda vrsta, ki se hrani z veliko različnimi rastlinami.

Records from Slovenia:

Scopoli, 1763: Circa Labacum (= around Ljubljana) & in Carniolia inferiore (= Dolenjska) – type localities; Montandon, 1886; Gogala & Moder, 1960; Gogala & Gogala, 1986, 1989, 1994; Gogala A., 2007