Species Deraeocoris davisi

Classification · Explanation of Names · Identification · Range · Works Cited

Wide, dark mirid with pale apical membrane - Deraeocoris davisi

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 Deraeocorinae

Tribe Deraeocorini

Genus Deraeocoris

Species davisi (Deraeocoris davisi)

Explanation of Names

Deraeocoris davisi Knight 1921

Identification

Scutellum impunctate; tibiae uniformly pale; metafemora pale with incomplete dark band; antennae pale yellow; membrane with apical half pale; pronotum, clavus, and inner half of corium dark brown to black; and outer half of corium usually dull translucent yellow with fuscous puctures(1)(2)

Range

e.US(3)

Works Cited

1.	The Plant Bugs, or Miridae, of Illinois Knight, Harry, H. 1941. State of illinois.

2.	Heteroptera of Eastern North America W.S. Blatchley. 1926. The Nature Publishing Company.

3.	Catalog of the Heteroptera, or True Bugs of Canada and the Continental United States Thomas J. Henry, Richard C. Froeschner. 1988. Brill Academic Publishers.

Contributed by WonGun Kim on 4 June, 2009 - 11:30am
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 26 March, 2024 - 12:50pm

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