Genus Lygocoris

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers

black-tailed green plant bug - Lygocoris pabulinus

Common Green Capsid - Lygocoris pabulinus

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Hemiptera (True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies)

Suborder Heteroptera (True Bugs)

Family Miridae (Plant Bugs)

Subfamily Mirinae

Tribe Mirini

Genus Lygocoris

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Author: Reuter, 1875

Synonym: Pleisiocoris Fieber, 1861

Numbers

2 species in North America.

(Although nearctica.com and PBI list several species, most of them were transferred to the genus Neolygus and one of them, lucorum, was transferred to the genus Apolygus.)

Contributed by Robin McLeod on 26 August, 2005 - 10:30pm
Additional contributions by onegunah
Last updated 22 September, 2009 - 11:25am

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