''Spathocera dalmanii'', known as Dalman's leatherbug, is a species of insect in the family

Coreidae Coreidae is a large family of predominantly sap-sucking insects in the Hemipteran suborder Heteroptera. The name "Coreidae" derives from the genus ''Coreus'', which derives from the Ancient Greek () meaning bedbug. As a family, the Coreidae a ...

, tribe

Coreini Coreini is a tribe of leaf-footed bugs in the family Coreidae. There are at least 20 genera and 70 described species in Coreini. Genera These 25 genera belong to the tribe Coreini: * ''Althos'' Kirkaldy, 1904 * ''Anasa'' Amyot & Serville, 1843 ...

.Coreoidea Species File
/ref> It is native to Europe.

Description

''Spathocera dalmanii'' is brown with a long, pale-sided

pronotum The prothorax is the foremost of the three segments in the thorax of an insect, and bears the first pair of legs. Its principal sclerites (exoskeletal plates) are the pronotum (dorsal), the prosternum (ventral), and the propleuron (lateral) on ea ...

. There are no spines on the antennae, head, or pronotum. The scutellum has two wedge-shaped black markings.

Ecology and behavior

This bug feeds on sheep's sorrel, ''

Rumex acetosella ''Rumex acetosella'', commonly known as red sorrel, sheep's sorrel, field sorrel and sour weed, is a species of flowering plant in the buckwheat family Polygonaceae. Native to Eurasia and the British Isles, the plant and its subspecies are commo ...

''. The adults move slowly and rarely fly. There may be two generations per year in warmer areas.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q10674517 Coreini Hemiptera of Europe