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Subfamily Tinginae

Tingid on Sycamore - Gargaphia tiliae Lace Bug - Teleonemia scrupulosa Corythucha aesculi - Buckeye Lace Bug - Corythucha aesculi Measure the Lateral Carinae - Corythucha morrilli Lace bug - Leptoypha Lace bug - Teleonemia Flying insect 3 mm length - Stephanitis Corythucha? - Corythucha
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Hemiptera (True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies)
Suborder Heteroptera (True Bugs)
Infraorder Cimicomorpha
Superfamily Miroidea
Family Tingidae (Lace Bugs)
Subfamily Tinginae
Numbers
by far the largest tingid subfamily; all the native NA spp. are members of the tribe Tingini, but a few introduced spp. of the Eurasian tribe Ypsotingini are also present (the third tribe is small, tropical, and mostly restricted to so. hemisphere)(1)
Works Cited
1.Lace Bug Genera of the World, II: Subfamily Tinginae: Tribes Litadeini and Ypsotingini (Heteroptera: Tingidae)
Froeschner R.C. 2001. Smithsonian contributions to zoology no. 611, 28 pp.