Piglet Bugs (Caliscelidae) - 52 Species, Identification & Facts

Aphelonema simplex

Identification: Males are reddish, females are tan; the very short head is distinctive (Andy Hamilton)

Asarcopus palmarum

Identification: Sexually dimorphic in the shape of the head and wing color/shape. The male is shinier, has more color contrast, and has a humped thorax and an indentation at the junction of the thorax and abdomen, whereas the female is smoothly tubul

Bruchomorpha abrupta

Identification: Similar to B. extensa , but the white line down the back fades out on the abdomen. --Andy Hamilton Ventral margin of postclypeus only slightly concave, reddish-brown in color; nasal process not inflated at tip, more truncate across ap

Bruchomorpha extensa

Identification: Large species, black with a contrasting yellow dorsal stripe extending to apex of abdomen

Bruchomorpha jocosa

Identification: final couplet: Uniform reddish-brown color in females and males, with a dark lateral area on each tegmen [forewing], and a conspicuous dark spot on apex of postclypeus

Bruchomorpha oculata

Identification: last key couplet: "Ventral margin of postclypeus deeply concave; nasal process slightly bulbous, with a distinct slant; a uniform dark species with only a trace of a median tannish or bronze stripe on head and thorax"

Bruchomorpha rosea

Identification: easily distinguished by rosy coloring (Doering 1940) Nasal process not so bulbous, lateral carinae converging at about base of apical seventh or eighth; reddish in color

Bruchomorpha vittata

Identification: Nasal process very narrow, truncate; ventral margin of postclypeus straight; a yellow species with two lateral longitudinal dark stripes

Fitchiella albifrons

Identification: Front with longitudinal white stripe

Robertson's Flightless Planthopper

Fitchiella robertsonii

considered for conservation in several Midwestern states ( IL , WI , Bess 2005 ) What once was lost, now is found: ecology of an elusive ball-nosed planthopper, Fitchiella robertsonii (Hemiptera: Caliscelidae), from tallgrass prairie - Marlin Rice an

Fitchiella rufipes

Identification: venter of head process and most of legs reddish

Fitchiella rugosa

Holotype (female): Brownsville, Texas, September. Paratype (1 female): Nogales, Arizona, September 24.

Nenema confragosum

Identification: Tegmina obliquely depressed through middle; black areas of abdominal segments inflated; claval vein light brown

Nenema rugosum

Identification: last couplet: Tegmina reticulate, veins conspicuously elevated; basal portion of postclypeus overhanging rest as a blunt tubercle (less pronounced in male)

Protrocha orbiculata

Identification: Elongate, median frontal tablet smooth, oval, no angles indicated at either end, two pustules between tablet and postclypeus, an extra median row of 5 pustules in each lateral compartment