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Blissus insularis, the southern chinch bug, is a species of true bug in the family Blissidae. It is found in North America and Oceania. The southern chinch bug is known to be a pest due to its feeding on St. Augustine grass.

References

1. "Blissus insularis Species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 1 February 2018.
2. ^ "Blissus insularis Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 1 February 2018.
3. Reinert, James A. (15 September 1978). "Natural Enemy Complex of the Southern Chinch Bug1 in Florida2". Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 71 (5): 728–731. doi:10.1093/aesa/71.5.728. ISSN 1938-2901.

• Nishida, Gordon M., ed. (2003). "Hawaiian Terrestrial Arthropod Checklist, 4th ed.". Bishop Museum Technical Reports no. 22, iv + 313.
• Thomas J. Henry, Richard C. Froeschner. (1988). Catalog of the Heteroptera, True Bugs of Canada and the Continental United States. Brill Academic Publishers.

Further reading

• Ross H. Arnett (30 July 2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press. ISBN 978-0-8493-0212-1.

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