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Species Lygus hesperus - Western Tarnished Plant Bug

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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 Mirinae
Tribe Mirini
Genus Lygus (Lygus Bugs)
Species hesperus (Western Tarnished Plant Bug)
Explanation of Names
Lygus hesperus Knight, 1917
hesperus (G). 'western' (1)
Size
Body length: 4.25-4.99 mm (male), 4.33-5.24 (female)
Corium length: 2.65-2.90 mm (male), 2.66-3.03 (female) (2)
Identification
Recognized by long A2 and A3, long labium, always reaching the base of the abdomen, dense, long hairs, dense punctation, sometimes overall reddish-cast, and usually red apex of the tibiae, especially the metatibia of otherwise pale females. (2)
Range
w. NA (sBC-CA-wTX-wMT) to n. Mex. - Map (2)(3)
Habitat
agricultural and relatively low elevation regions (2)