Neopteran

The Red-shoulder bug is a 'true bug.' Also known as Goldenrain Tree bugs. This female was crawling on a sidewalk next to a privet hedge.

True bugs like the Red-shouldered bug share the same type of mouth parts for sucking.

Red-shouldered bugs have red eyes and shoulders

Male and female Red-shouldered bugs mating on the sidewalk. The female is larger than the male, with shorter wings.

Attracted to a light trap at the northern terminus of Farmer Road, Julian, California in the hour before dawn in light rain. Later that day it was photographed in Cuyamaca Woods, Julian.

Specimen collected February 12, 1972 by P. Tuskes.

Flightless animal collected from a migratory band that had walked about 20 km in about 3 weeks. Large numbers died trying to cross a local stream, and thousands more killed by burning, poisoning, and trenching by land owners. Tucura sapo toad-like locust. Tucura (Spanish) derived from Tupi-Guarani language (tu + cura = animal voracious). Three species of Bufonacris, all in southern South America. Only this species has mass migrations.

Flightless animal collected from a migratory band that had walked about 20 km in about 3 weeks. Large numbers died trying to cross a local stream, and thousands more killed by burning, poisoning, and trenching by land owners. Tucura sapo toad-like locust. 'Tucura' (Spanish) derived from Tupi-Guarani language ('tu' + 'cura' = animal voracious). Three species of Bufonacris, all in southern South America. Only this species has mass migrations.

Flightless animal collected from a migratory band that had walked about 20 km in about 3 weeks. Large numbers died trying to cross a local stream, and thousands more killed by burning, poisoning, and trenching by land owners. Tucura sapo toad-like locust. 'Tucura' (Spanish) derived from Tupi-Guarani language ('tu' + 'cura' = animal voracious). Three species of Bufonacris, all in southern South America. Only this species has mass migrations.

Flightless animal collected from a migratory band that had walked about 20 km in about 3 weeks. Large numbers died trying to cross a local stream, and thousands more killed by burning, poisoning, and trenching by land owners. Tucura sapo toad-like locust. 'Tucura' (Spanish) derived from Tupi-Guarani language ('tu' + 'cura' = animal voracious). Three species of Bufonacris, all in southern South America. Only this species has mass migrations.

Flightless animal collected from a migratory band that had walked about 20 km in about 3 weeks. Large numbers died trying to cross a local stream, and thousands more killed by burning, poisoning, and trenching by land owners. Tucura sapo toad-like locust. 'Tucura' (Spanish) derived from Tupi-Guarani language ('tu' + 'cura' = animal voracious). Three species of Bufonacris, all in southern South America. Only this species has mass migrations.

Flightless animal collected from a migratory band that had walked about 20 km in about 3 weeks. Large numbers died trying to cross a local stream, and thousands more killed by burning, poisoning, and trenching by land owners. Tucura sapo toad-like locust. 'Tucura' (Spanish) derived from Tupi-Guarani language ('tu' + 'cura' = animal voracious). Three species of Bufonacris, all in southern South America. Only this species has mass migrations.

Flightless animal collected from a migratory band that had walked about 20 km in about 3 weeks. Large numbers died trying to cross a local stream, and thousands more killed by burning, poisoning, and trenching by land owners. Tucura sapo toad-like locust. 'Tucura' (Spanish) derived from Tupi-Guarani language ('tu' + 'cura' = animal voracious). Three species of Bufonacris, all in southern South America. Only this species has mass migrations.

Flightless animal collected from a migratory band that had walked about 20 km in about 3 weeks. Large numbers died trying to cross a local stream, and thousands more killed by burning, poisoning, and trenching by land owners. Tucura sapo toad-like locust. 'Tucura' (Spanish) derived from Tupi-Guarani language ('tu' + 'cura' = animal voracious). Three species of Bufonacris, all in southern South America. Only this species has mass migrations.

Flightless animal collected from a migratory band that had walked about 20 km in about 3 weeks. Large numbers died trying to cross a local stream, and thousands more killed by burning, poisoning, and trenching by land owners. Tucura sapo toad-like locust. 'Tucura' (Spanish) derived from Tupi-Guarani language ('tu' + 'cura' = animal voracious). Three species of Bufonacris, all in southern South America. Only this species has mass migrations.

Flightless animal collected from a migratory band that had walked about 20 km in about 3 weeks. Large numbers died trying to cross a local stream, and thousands more killed by burning, poisoning, and trenching by land owners. Tucura sapo toad-like locust. 'Tucura' (Spanish) derived from Tupi-Guarani language ('tu' + 'cura' = animal voracious). Three species of Bufonacris, all in southern South America. Only this species has mass migrations.

Flightless animal collected from a migratory band that had walked about 20 km in about 3 weeks. Large numbers died trying to cross a local stream, and thousands more killed by burning, poisoning, and trenching by land owners. Tucura sapo toad-like locust. 'Tucura' (Spanish) derived from Tupi-Guarani language ('tu' + 'cura' = animal voracious). Three species of Bufonacris, all in southern South America. Only this species has mass migrations.

Flightless animal collected from a migratory band that had walked about 20 km in about 3 weeks. Large numbers died trying to cross a local stream, and thousands more killed by burning, poisoning, and trenching by land owners. Tucura sapo toad-like locust. 'Tucura' (Spanish) derived from Tupi-Guarani language ('tu' + 'cura' = animal voracious). Three species of Bufonacris, all in southern South America. Only this species has mass migrations.