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Red Cotton Bug

Odontopus varicornis

Description:

Family : Pyrrhocoridae http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrrhocorid... looks similar to Cenaeus carnifex, native to Africa.

2 Species ID Suggestions

hourglass bug, cotton bug
Dysdercus sp. DSC_2088 | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
bayucca
bayucca 9 years ago
Red Cotton Bug
Odontopus varicornis Insect Pests


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6 Comments

bayucca
bayucca 9 years ago

You are very welcome! I took this as my personal challenge. Actually I hate not finding an ID.

arnab roy
arnab roy 9 years ago

Thank you very much bayucca!

bayucca
bayucca 9 years ago

Got it!! A long search finally ended up with the right one!
Pyrrhocoridae, Odontopus varicornis!

bayucca
bayucca 9 years ago

Yours is definitely not Dysdercus cingulatus.

arnab roy
arnab roy 9 years ago

Thanks bayucca...there does seem to be a lot of confusion regarding the identification. I feel the one in the following link has the most 'votes' for being D. cingulatus.
http://www.indianaturewatch.net/displayi...

bayucca
bayucca 9 years ago

Could be a Dysdercus, but none of the well known. Please, apologize for the adding of so many, unfortunately "useless" links, since none of them are correctly IDed. some of the ones you will find are from the same person and all IDed as Dysdercus singulatus, which is a) misspelled, it should be Dysdercus cingulatus and b) it is NOT Dysdercus cingulatus. I will keep an eye on yours, but I have to close my MacBook before crashing ;-)...
All the same ones:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/34727520@N...
http://www.whatsthatbug.com/2013/03/26/r...
http://www.indianaturewatch.net/displayi...
https://attimaram.files.wordpress.com/20...
https://www.flickr.com/photos/54712626@N...
https://www.flickr.com/photos/29848963@N...
https://www.flickr.com/photos/48168157@N...
https://www.flickr.com/photos/13768295@N...
https://www.flickr.com/photos/81073027@N...
http://www.insecte.org/forum/viewtopic.p...

arnab roy
Spotted by
arnab roy

Chennai City Corporation Limits, Tamil Nadu, India

Spotted on Mar 18, 2011
Submitted on Jan 18, 2015

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