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Black bug
Copyright © 2007 john and jane balaban

Black bug
Harms Woods Forest Preserve, Glenview, Cook County, Illinois, USA
June 22, 2007
Size: ~3mm
Found this guy resting in the vegetation along the edge of a wet swale through the woodland. We're thinking it might be Plagiognathus syrticolae because of Claude's .
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Contributed by john and jane balaban on 23 June, 2007 - 9:56pm
Last updated 12 July, 2007 - 7:35am

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… Boris Büche, 12 July, 2007 - 7:35am login or register to post comments

Plagiognathus ? syrticolae?
There are 89 species of Plagiognathus species in North America (see the URL of a PDF document in the Info section of the genus). Identification of species should be done with great care. This one doesn't seem to have the second antennal segment pale, which is a characteristic of P. syrticolae. And it could be something else than Plagiognathus...
… Claude Pilon, 24 June, 2007 - 7:19pm login or register to post comments

 
Wow! The diversity in some of these
species groups is just mind boggling sometimes! We're guessing then without the specimen or the hostplant this may just not be going anywhere. Let us know anytime you think we should frass it. Thanks, Claude.
… john and jane balaban, 24 June, 2007 - 11:44pm login or register to post comments

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