Mediterranean Seed Bug

Subject:  Different bug
Geographic location of the bug:  Visalia ca
Date: 07/27/2019
Time: 02:23 AM EDT
Your letter to the bugman:  Found a little critter on my bed, thought it was a cockroach but the back looks different almost like a mask when u zoom it   what is this ?
How you want your letter signed:  Lizzy

Mediterranean Seed Bug

Dear Lizzy,
This is not a Cockroach.  It is an invasive Mediterranean Seed Bug,
Xanthochilus saturnius, and it is pictured on pBase.  According to BugGuide:  “native to Europe and the Mediterranean, adventive in NA (WA-CA) and now locally abundant.”

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