Red bug

Weight

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Length

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Lifespan

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Main food

Not recorded

Habitat

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Young per litter or clutch

Not recorded

Conservation status

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Countries on record

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No conservation assessment is recorded for this species in our sources. That is not the same as being safe: it has not been matched to an assessment.

1. kingdomAnimalia
2. phylumArthropoda
3. classInsecta
4. orderHemiptera
5. familyMiridae
6. genusDeraeocoris
7. SpeciesDeraeocoris ruber (Linnaeus, 1758)

Synonyms Capsus lanarius, Capsus laniarius, Capsus laniarius var. tricolor, Capsus ruber, Capsus ruber var. segusinus, Cimex adustus, Cimex biguttatus, Cimex capillaris, Cimex chrysocephalus, Cimex cimbricus, Cimex croceus, Cimex daniae, Cimex flammeus, Cimex fuliginosus, Cimex geniculas, Cimex haematocephalus, Cimex hamatostictos, Cimex laniarius, Cimex luteus, Cimex melinus, Cimex rubens, Cimex ruber, Cimex rubroacuminatus, Cimex rufescens, Cimex segusinus, Cimex tricolor, Deraeocoris adustus, Deraeocoris bicolor, Deraeocoris biguttatus, Deraeocoris capillaris, Deraeocoris chrysocephalus, Deraeocoris cimbricus, Deraeocoris concolor, Deraeocoris croceus, Deraeocoris daniae, Deraeocoris danicus, Deraeocoris denigratus, Deraeocoris dobsiki, Deraeocoris fieberi, Deraeocoris flammeus, Deraeocoris fuliginosus, Deraeocoris geniculas, Deraeocoris haematocephalus, Deraeocoris hamatostictos, Deraeocoris laniarius, Deraeocoris luteus, Deraeocoris melinus, Deraeocoris rubens, Deraeocoris ruber bicolor, Deraeocoris ruber denigrata, Deraeocoris ruber dobsiki, Deraeocoris ruber fieberi, Deraeocoris ruber scopolii, Deraeocoris ruber segusinus, Deraeocoris rubroacuminatus, Deraeocoris rufescens, Deraeocoris scopolii, Deraeocoris segusinus, Deraeocoris segusinus concolor, Deraeocoris tricolor, Lygaeus danicus

Catalogue of Life

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  Tobias, J.A. et al. (2022) AVONET: morphological, ecological and geographical data for all birds. Ecology Letters 25: 581–597. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13898. Data: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.16586228.v7
• Catalogue of Life eXtended Release · CC BY 4.0 · 2026-10-16 XR
  Catalogue of Life (2026). Catalogue of Life eXtended Release, version 2026-10-16 XR. Catalogue of Life Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgzlf
• Wikimedia Commons · per file (CC0 / public domain / CC BY green, CC BY-SA amber, anything else not displayed) · 2026-11-11
  Wikimedia Commons contributors. Wikimedia Commons. https://commons.wikimedia.org (each file credited to its author under its own licence).
• EltonTraits 1.0: species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals · CC0 1.0 · 1.0
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• Wikidata · CC0 1.0 · 2026-11-11
  Wikidata contributors. Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org (data retrieved via the Wikidata Query Service).
• Wikipedia (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 2026-11-11
  Wikipedia contributors. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. https://en.wikipedia.org (text under CC BY-SA 4.0; each block names its article and revision).

@misc{red_bug_2026,
  title = {Red bug (Deraeocoris ruber)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/red-bug},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-11}
}