About Calocoris nemoralis (Fabricius, 1787)
Calocoris nemoralis, first described by Fabricius in 1787, has an elongated body. Males of this species reach a length of 8.5–9 millimetres (0.33–0.35 in), while females reach 8.2–9.5 millimetres (0.32–0.37 in). The head is most commonly black, and very rarely pale. The dorsal surface is covered in dense black hairs, and the wing membrane is black. All legs are black, though the femurs and tibiae are often partially red or yellow. The most common base color of this bug is red, marked with black dots. This species has many different forms, with extremely high color variability; individuals can be white, black, gray, yellowish, greenish, or blood red, and they may occur with or without black spots. This species is distributed across most of Southern Europe, including Cyprus, European Turkey, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Malta, Portugal and Spain.
