Drymus
genus of insects
Drymus is a genus of seed bugs in the family Rhyparochromidae and typical of the tribe Drymini. Described species of Drymus are found in Europe, North Africa, North America and Asia.
Species
The Lygaeoidea Species File includes two subgenera:
Drymus Fieber, 1860
Sylvadrymus Le Quesne, 1956
Drymus assimilis Horváth, 1897
Drymus brunneus (Sahlberg, 1848)
Drymus laeviventris Kerzhner, 1977
Drymus marginatus Distant, 1883
Drymus orientalis Kerzhner, 1977
Drymus parvulus Jakovlev, 1881
Drymus pumilio Puton, 1877
Drymus ryeii Douglas & Scott, 1865
Drymus sylvaticus (Fabricius, 1775)
References
Further reading
External links
"Drymus Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
"Drymus Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
“Drymus” enters the record as genus of insects. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Drymus, genus and insects can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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“Drymus” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Drymus, genus and insects provides the most credible route into that argument.
Stable identifiers, scientific names and standards terminology offer the best bridge between this overview and specialist evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q10477181. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1860, 1956, 1897 and 1848.
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