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black-spotted groundbug

Rhyparochromus pini

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Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist. — (c) skovfoged_dalby, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.

United States	5,241
Alaska	5,241
Russia	453
Finland	230
Austria	127
France	114
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes	72
Kursk Oblast	68
Sweden	66
Uusimaa	66

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Physical

ExoskeletonHas a hard external skeletonFrom its classification

Classification

Kingdom	Animals · Animalia
Phylum	Arthropods · Arthropoda
Class	Insects · Insecta
Order	True Bugs, Hoppers, Aphids, and allies · Hemiptera
Family	Dirt-colored Seed Bugs · Rhyparochromidae
Genus	Rhyparochromus

Sources

Names, taxonomy and observation counts: www.inaturalist.org
Photos and recordings: the creator and source are on each one.
How much to rely on each source

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