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Blissus leucopterus, also known as the true [clarification needed] chinch bug, is a small North American insect in the order Hemiptera and family Blissidae. [2] It is the most commonly encountered species of the genus Blissus , which are all known as chinch bugs.
Cavelerius saccharivorus, also known as the oriental chinch bug, is a small Asian true bug in the order Hemiptera and family Blissidae. [3] It feeds by sucking the sap out of the stems of grasses and grass-like plants, including rice plants and sugarcane .
The term chinch bug can refer to a few different North American insects: Blissus insularis – the southern chinch bug; Blissus leucopterus – the true chinch bug; Nysius raphanus – the false chinch bug; All three species are in the order Hemiptera, making them true bugs. The entire genus Blissus of which there are 16 species in North America.
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Blissus is a genus in the true bug family Blissidae, [2] commonly called chinch bugs in North America. The review by Slater (1979) listed 27 species. [ 3 ] The species B. leucopterus , [ 4 ] B. occiduus [ 5 ] and B. insularis [ 6 ] are important pests of cereal crops and turf grasses in their different ranges in the United States.
The Blissidae are a family in the Hemiptera (true bugs), comprising nearly 50 genera and 400 species. [2] The group has often been treated as a subfamily of the Lygaeidae but was resurrected as a full family by Thomas Henry (1997). [3] The adult insects are elongate, typically four times as long as broad, and in some species, up to seven times.
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Ischnodemus sabuleti, also known as the European chinch bug, is a species of swarming true bug from the family Blissidae, which family also includes the American Chinch Bug Blissus leucopterus. It was first described by Carl Fredrik Fallén in 1826.