Pyrrhocoris apterus

TaxID: 37000

Basic Information

Pyrrhocoris apterus

Fire Bug, Fire bug

The firebug, Pyrrhocoris apterus, is a common insect of the family Pyrrhocoridae. Easily recognisable due to its striking red and black coloration, it may be confused with the similarly coloured though unrelated Corizus hyoscyami (cinnamon bug or squash bug). Pyrrhocoris apterus is distributed throughout the Palaearctic from the Atlantic coast of Europe to northwest China. Beyond its native Palaearctic range, it has been recorded in the United States, Central America, India, and Australia. It has been reported as recently expanding its distribution northwards into mainland United Kingdom and eastward on to the coast of the Mediterranean Sea. They are frequently observed to form aggregations, especially as immature forms, containing from tens to perhaps a hundred individuals.

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Taxonomic Information

Metazoa

Arthropoda

Insecta

Hemiptera

Pyrrhocoridae

Pyrrhocoris

apterus

unclassified

Photos (5 photos)

Pyrrhocoris apterus
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(c) Per Hoffmann Olsen@BY-NC
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(c) unknown@CC0
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(c) belgianchocolate@BY
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(c) Martin Grimm@BY-NC
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(c) Aka@BY-SA

Morphological Features

No morphological description available.

Host Plants (0 host plants)

Data sources: EPPO Global Database and relevant literature.

No host plants available.

Quarantine Status (2 records)

Data sources: IPPC website and national quarantine websites; verified by human review.

Country Status Year Added
Ecuador Quarantine pests —
United States of America Quarantine pests —

Distribution (71 countries)

Data Sources: EPPO Global Database and GBIF.

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Present
0
Absent
0
Unknown/Other
Country Status State
Albania Present —
Algeria Present —
Andorra Present —
Armenia Present —
Australia Present —
Austria Present —
Azerbaijan Present —
Belgium Present —
Bulgaria Present —
Bosnia and Herzegovina Present —
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Distribution Map (Latitude and longitude coordinates sourced from GBIF.)

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Genomes (1 records)

Data source: NCBI.

Assembly Accession Assembly Level Genome Size(Mb) Contig N50(Kb) Scaffold N50(Kb) BUSCO% Downloads Actions
GCA_039877355.1 Chromosome 1120 2052 102784 -

Transcriptomes (3 records)

Data source: NCBI.

Run ID Tissue Developmental Stage Sex Read Count Location Actions
SRR28893581 whole body without head and gut - - 20953768 China: Urumqi
SRR28893580 whole body without head and gut - - 23194332 China: Urumqi
SRR28893579 whole body without head and gut - - 22523371 China: Urumqi

DNA Barcodes (0 records)

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Data source: BOLD.

No DNA barcode records available.

Literature