Pests > Pests Entities > Insects > Aphids, Planthoppers & Bugs > Pyrrhocorids, coriander & tomato, India

November 2009. Images of two bugs were sent from Bangalore, India. The bright red ones with white stripes is sitting on a coriander flower, while the brick red bug with white and black spots on it back were abundant in tomato. They are fast-moving, ground-roaming, bugs. They were thought to be pyrrhocorids.

The bug with black and white spots was thought to be Spilostethus pandurus. It belongs to the Lygaeidae and not Anthocoreidae.

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