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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 » Lace Bugs (Tingidae) » Tinginae » Tingini » Leptoypha

Genus Leptoypha

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Season · Food · Life Cycle · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Hemiptera. Tingidae. Leptoypha mutica - Leptoypha mutica

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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 Tingidae (Lace Bugs)

Subfamily Tinginae

Tribe Tingini

Genus Leptoypha

Explanation of Names

Leptoypha Stål 1873

Numbers

9 spp. in our area(1), 17 total(2)

Size

2-4 mm

Identification

Adult: body elongate, light to dark brown or reddish-brown; pronotum humped, with single dorsal ridge in midline but lacking pronotal hood and lateral expansions characteristic of other lace bugs; antennae thick, 4-segmented, with 3rd segment 3-5 times longer than basal segment

Nymph: body oblong, yellowish-brown; lateral margins of thorax and abdomen with short stout spines; wingpads dark-tipped, present in last two instars only

Range

widespread in the New World & E. Asia(2); in our area, e. Canada (QC-SK) & much of the US(3)(4), but only two species in the Northeast (L. costata and L. mutica) --L. Miller's comment

Habitat

on leaves of host plants in summer; leaf litter in winter

Season

adults Apr-Nov in the south, Jun-Sep in the north; nymphs Jul-Sep

Food

nymphs and adults feed on leaves of Chionanthus, Forestiera, Ceanothus, Fraxinus, Populus, etc.(4)

Life Cycle

two generations per year in the south; probably one in the north; overwinter as adults in leaf litter

Print References

(5)(6)

Internet References

Fact sheet (Wheeler 2005)

Works Cited

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

2.	Guilbert E. (2013) Lace bugs database

3.	Checklist of the Hemiptera of Canada and Alaska Maw, H.E.L., R.G. Foottit, K.G.A. Hamilton and G.G.E. Scudder. 2000. NRC Research Press.

4.	Heteroptera of economic importance Schaefer C.W., Panizzi A.R. (eds). 2000. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, 828 pp.

5.	Key to the Nearctic species of Leptoypha and Leptostyla (Heteroptera Tingidae) McAtee W.L. 1917. Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc. 12: 55-64.

6.	Leptoypha elliptica McAtee and L. ilicis Drake (Hemiptera: Tingidae): new distribution records of seldom-collected lace bugs... Wheeler A.G. 2002. Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. 104: 687-691.

Contributed by Robin McLeod on 8 November, 2005 - 9:34am
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 28 October, 2019 - 8:10am

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