About Heterogaster urticae (Fabricius, 1775)
Heterogaster urticae (Fabricius, 1775) has an adult body length of approximately 6–7 mm (0.24–0.28 inches). These shiny bugs have a yellow-brown to brown pronotum and corium, and gray-yellow antennae. The head and pronotum are covered in long, whitish, erect hairs. Distinctive features include alternating dark and light markings on the legs and connexivum. The fore femora bear a single spine, pale tibiae have three dark ring-shaped markings, and the rostrum only reaches as far as the middle coxae. This species is distributed across Africa, Europe, Northern Asia excluding China, New Zealand, and North America.
