Description: L: ~6-7mm Gastrodes abietum BERGROTH, 1914 (Spruce cone bug, Fichtenzapfenwanze) Genus: Gastrodes WESTWOOD, 1840 Tribus: Drymini Subfamily: Rhyparochrominae AMYOT & SERVILLE, 1843 Family: Rhyparochromidae AMYOT & SERVILLE, 1843 (Dirt-colored Seed Bugs) (before: Lygaeoidae SCHILLING, 1829) Superfamily Lygaeoidea (Lang- oder Bodenwanzen) Infraorder: Pentatomomorpha Suborder: Heteroptera (real bugs, Wanzen) Order: Hemiptera (true bugs, Schnabelkerfe) Infraclass: Neoptera Subclass: Pterygota Class: Insecta (insects, Insekten) Subphylum: Hexapoda Phylum: Arthropoda more info:
www.britishbugs.org.uk/heteroptera/Lygaeidae/Gastrodes_ab.. Germany, N-Hessen, Kassel: vic. Habichtswald NP: Herbsthäuschen, 400-550m asl., 26.06.2011 __________________________________________________________________________________ 180mm macro (tamron, 3.5), 1/250s, f/5.0, ISO400, 0 EV, AL, hand-held IMG_2415. Date: 26 June 2011, 19:53. Source:
Fichtenzapfenwanze (Lygaeidae: Gastrodes abietum). Author:
gbohne from Berlin, Germany.