EREMOCORIS DEPRESSUS BARBER - HOSTS, SEASONALITY, AND FIRST NEW-ENGLAND RECORDS OF A PINE SEED SPECIALIST (HETEROPTERA, LYGAEIDAE)

The rhyparochromine lygaeid Eremocoris depressus Barber should be cons idered a characteristic insect of northeastern pitch pine-scrub oak ba rrens. Known previously only as far north as southeastern Pennsylvania , this rarely collected species is reported from New York and New Engl and (Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Islan d). Other new records given are District of Columbia, Georgia, Texas, and West Virginia. New hosts recorded for this seed feeder are Pinus p alustris Mill., P. pungens Lamb., P. rigida Mill., and P. taeda L. Not es on seasonal history and habits of this univoltine seed bug are prov ided.