Diet

• Adults and nymphs: Primarily plant-feeding, using their piercing-sucking mouthparts to obtain sap from leaves, stems, flowers, fruits and seeds.

• Largus species are generally associated with flowering plants and seed-producing vegetation, although the specific host plants of L. maculatus are not particularly well documented.

• Feeding is often concentrated around developing seeds and fruits, where the insects can obtain concentrated nutrients.

• Like other bordered plant bugs, they may also gather around fallen fruits, seeds and plant debris.

Range

• Largus maculatus is a bordered plant bug (Largidae) in the subfamily Larginae, tribe Largini.

• It is a New World species, occurring in Mexico and parts of Central America.

• It is occasionally sighted in Zihua, where suitable tropical vegetation provides habitat.

Habitat

• Found in tropical dry forest, tropical deciduous forest, scrub, grassland, forest edges, agricultural areas and disturbed vegetation.

• Adults are commonly associated with herbaceous plants and shrubs, particularly when plants are flowering or producing seeds.

• Around Zihua, search low vegetation, flowering plants and seed-bearing plants, especially in sunny forest margins and open scrub.

• They may also be found on the ground beneath host plants where seeds and fallen plant material accumulate.

Size

• Adult length: generally around 10–14 mm (0.4–0.55 in).

• Body elongated and somewhat oval, with the characteristic appearance of a bordered plant bug.

• L. maculatus has a distinctive black, yellow and orange colour pattern. The head and scutellum are predominantly black, while the pronotum has orange margins and the forewings are yellowish with black spotting.

• The dark abdominal margins have c