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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » True Bugs (Heteroptera) » Cimicomorpha » Miroidea » Plant Bugs (Miridae) » Phylinae » Semiini » Tytthus

Genus Tytthus

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Food · Remarks · Works Cited
Tiny, elongated blackish Plant Bug with pale straw-colored wings and legs - Tytthus fuscicornis Tiny, elongated blackish Plant Bug with pale straw-colored wings and legs - Tytthus fuscicornis Tiny, elongated blackish Plant Bug with pale straw-colored wings and legs - Tytthus fuscicornis Tytthus - Tytthus piceus - male Unknown Hemipteran - Tytthus Orthotylini - Tytthus parviceps lateral - Tytthus parviceps Tytthus parviceps
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 Miridae (Plant Bugs)
Subfamily Phylinae
Tribe Semiini
Genus Tytthus
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Isoproba Osborn
Explanation of Names
Tytthus Fieber 1864
Numbers
13 spp. in our area, 24 total(1)
Range
mostly New World; in our area, widespread but most diverse in se. US (FL has 7 spp.); 2 spp. are holarctic(1)
Food
specialize in feeding on delphacid planthopper eggs(1)
Remarks
Three new spp. from USA, T. fuscicornis, T. uniformis, and T. wheeleri, are described in Henry (2012)(1)
Works Cited
1.Revision of the Plant Bug Genus Tytthus (Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Miridae, Phylinae)
Thomas J. Henry. 2012. ZooKeys.
Contributed by john and jane balaban on 12 December, 2008 - 9:26pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov, onegunah
Last updated 2 November, 2023 - 1:05pm

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