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Red silk cotton tree bugs (mating) Dysdercus koenigii,Red Silk Cotton Bug Click/tap to enlarge Species intro

Red silk cotton tree bugs (mating)

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    Ferdy Christant
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    No Wikipedia page, so species created manually. Posted 11 years ago

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The Red Silk Cotton Bug

Dysdercus koenigii is a true bug in the Pyrrhocoris genus, belonging to the family Pyrrhocoridae, the cotton stainers. They are called cotton stainers for being crushed when harvesting cotton, which leaves stains.

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Similar species: True Bugs
Species identified by Ferdy Christant
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Uploaded Nov 14, 2013.