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Though not found in Florida, this insect has been used to examine insect behavior, sexual selection, plant-insect interactions, and color variation. Learn more in this 4-page fact sheet was written by Christine W. Miller and published by the UF Department of Entomology and Nematology, December 2011.
EENY-511/IN914: Heliconia Bug Leptoscelis tricolor Westwood (ufl.edu)
References
Miller CW. (2007). Maternal effects and sexual selection in the heliconia bug, Leptoscelis tricolor (Hemiptera: Coreidae). Ph.D. Dissertation: Division of Biological Sciences. University of Montana, Missoula, Montana. http://etd.lib.umt.edu/theses/available/etd-01042008-120131/unrestricted/umi-umt-1060.pdf (16 November 2011).
Miller CW. 2008. Seasonal effects on offspring reproductive traits through maternal oviposition behavior. Behavioral Ecology 19: 1297-1304. https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arn075
Miller CW, Emlen DJ. 2010a. Across and within population differences in the scaling relationship of a sexually-selected trait. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 103: 209-215. https://doi.org/10.1603/AN09039
Miller CW, Emlen DJ. 2010b. Dynamic effects of oviposition site on offspring sexually-selected traits and scaling relationships. Evolutionary Ecology 24: 375-390. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10682-009-9312-6
Miller CW, Hollander SD. 2010. Predation on heliconia bugs, Leptoscelis tricolor (Hemiptera: Coreidae): examining the influences of crypsis and predator color preferences. Canadian Journal of Zoology 88: 122-128. https://doi.org/10.1139/Z09-128
Packauskas RJ. 2008. The position of the Leptoscelini and other taxonomic changes within the family Coreidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera). Zootaxa 63-68. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.1696.1.6
Westwood. 1842. A catalogue of hemiptera in the collection of the Rev. F. W. Hope. 2: 4,17.