''Blissus insularis'', the southern chinch bug, is a species of true bug in the family

Blissidae The Blissidae are a family in the Hemiptera (true bugs), comprising nearly 50 genera and 400 species. The group has often been treated as a subfamily of the Lygaeidae but was resurrected as a full family by Thomas Henry (1997). The adult insects ...

. It is found in North America and Oceania. The southern chinch bug is known to be a pest due to its feeding on St. Augustine grass.

References

* Nishida, Gordon M., ed. (2003). "Hawaiian Terrestrial Arthropod Checklist, 4th ed.". ''Bishop Museum Technical Reports no. 22'', iv + 313. * Thomas J. Henry, Richard C. Froeschner. (1988). ''Catalog of the Heteroptera, True Bugs of Canada and the Continental United States''. Brill Academic Publishers.

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