''Dysdercus andreae'', or St. Andrew's cotton stainer, is a species of red bug in the family

Pyrrhocoridae Pyrrhocoridae is a family of insects with more than 300 species world-wide. Many are red coloured and are known as red bugs and some species are called cotton stainers because their feeding activities leave an indelible yellow-brownish stain on c ...

. It is found on islands in the

Caribbean Sea The Caribbean Sea is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean in the tropics of the Western Hemisphere, located south of the Gulf of Mexico and southwest of the Sargasso Sea. It is bounded by the Greater Antilles to the north from Cuba ...

and in North America. Its host plant is ''

Thespesia populnea ''Thespesia populnea'', commonly known as the portia tree (), Pacific rosewood, Indian tulip tree, or milo, among other names, is a species of flowering plant belonging to the mallow family, Malvaceae. It is a tree found commonly on coasts ar ...

'', which it feeds on the seeds and fruits of.

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* * Pyrrhocoridae Articles created by Qbugbot Bugs described in 1758 Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus Insects of the Caribbean {{pentatomomorpha-stub