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title: "Chinche de hombros rojos"
description: "Jadera haematoloma — Insectos y arañas. Jadera haematoloma, the red-shouldered bug, goldenrain-tree bug or soapberry bug is a species of true bug that lives throughout the United States and south to northern South America."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/es/animal/red-shouldered-bug
last_updated: 2026-09-20
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# Chinche de hombros rojos

> Jadera haematoloma — Insectos y arañas. Jadera haematoloma, the red-shouldered bug, goldenrain-tree bug or soapberry bug is a species of true bug that lives  throughout the United States and south to northern South America.

- Scientific name: *Jadera haematoloma*
- Category: `insects` (Insectos y arañas)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 25903
- Wikidata: [Q6121426](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6121426)
- iNaturalist taxon: [127669](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/127669)

## Names

- en: Red-shouldered Bug
- es: Chinche de hombros rojos
- fr: Punaise à épaules rouges

## Countries with the most observations

US (20742), MX (658), TW (213), HN (13), CR (9), SV (6), GT (3), NI (3), PA (3)

## Summary

Jadera haematoloma, the red-shouldered bug, goldenrain-tree bug or soapberry bug is a species of true bug that lives  throughout the United States and south to northern South America. It feeds on seeds within the soapberry plant family, Sapindaceae, and is known to rapidly adapt to feeding on particular hosts. The species is often confused with boxelder bugs and lovebugs.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jadera_haematoloma

## Photo

![Chinche de hombros rojos](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/red-shouldered-bug/medium.jpg)

Photo: Schyler Brown · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/41548564

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/red-shouldered-bug?lang=es` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).