Diet

• Adults and nymphs: Primarily plant-feeding, using their piercing-sucking mouthparts to feed on seeds, fruits and other plant tissues.

• As with other Largus, feeding is particularly associated with developing seeds and reproductive parts of plants.

Range

• It is a native Mexican species, with records concentrated in the southern part of the country.

• It is occasionally sighted in Zihua.

Habitat

• Likely associated with tropical dry forest, tropical deciduous forest, scrub, woodland edges and other warm, relatively open habitats.

• Adults are expected on shrubs and herbaceous vegetation, particularly where plants are producing seeds.

• Around Zihua, look in dry forest, scrub and disturbed vegetation, especially among flowering and fruiting plants.

Size

• Adult length: approximately 16–17 mm based on measurements in the Mexican revision.

• It is a relatively large and elongated member of Largus.

• The body is predominantly black, with distinctive reddish to orange-red markings along portions of the pronotum and forewings.

• The membrane of the forewing is largely pale or whitish, providing a useful contrast with the dark body.