Subspecies
Lygaeus kalmii kalmii (Western small milkweed bug)
Lygaeus kalmii kalmii. Photo: no rights reserved
Lygaeus kalmii, known generally as the small milkweed bug or common milkweed bug, is a species of seed bug in the family Lygaeidae. It is found in Central America and North America.
- Humboldt Life
- Kingdom: Animalia (Animals)
- Phylum: Arthropoda (Arthropods)
- Subphylum: Hexapoda (Hexapods)
- Class: Insecta (Insects)
- Subclass: Pterygota (Winged and once-winged insects)
- Order: Hemiptera (True bugs, hoppers, aphids, and allies)
- Suborder: Heteroptera (True bugs)
- Infraorder: Pentatomomorpha (Pentatomomorph bugs)
- Superfamily: Lygaeoidea (Seed bugs and allies)
- Family: Lygaeidae (Seed bugs)
- Subfamily: Lygaeinae
- Genus: Lygaeus
- Complex: Lygaeus kalmii (Small milkweed bug complex)
- Species: Lygaeus kalmii (Small milkweed bug)
- Subspecies: Lygaeus kalmii kalmii (Western small milkweed bug)
- Species: Lygaeus kalmii (Small milkweed bug)
- Complex: Lygaeus kalmii (Small milkweed bug complex)
- Genus: Lygaeus
- Subfamily: Lygaeinae
- Family: Lygaeidae (Seed bugs)
- Superfamily: Lygaeoidea (Seed bugs and allies)
- Infraorder: Pentatomomorpha (Pentatomomorph bugs)
- Suborder: Heteroptera (True bugs)
- Order: Hemiptera (True bugs, hoppers, aphids, and allies)
- Subclass: Pterygota (Winged and once-winged insects)
- Class: Insecta (Insects)
- Subphylum: Hexapoda (Hexapods)
- Phylum: Arthropoda (Arthropods)
- Kingdom: Animalia (Animals)
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