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Species Metriorrhynchomiris dislocatus - Wild Onion Mirid

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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 Metriorrhynchomiris

Species dislocatus (Wild Onion Mirid)

Other Common Names

Wild Onion Mirid

Explanation of Names

Metriorrhynchomiris dislocatus (Say)

Orig. Comb: Capsus dislocatus Say, 1832

Syn: Horcias dislocatus (Say)

Size

6-7 mm (1)

Identification

exceedingly variable, Knight (1923) described some 14 varieties.(2) In some specimens the entire elytra except the costal margin and base of radial vein are black. (1)

Range

e. NA (QC-AB to FL-TX), but absent from coastal plains of LA-FL-NC - Map (3)(4)(5)

Food

Knight (1923) states that the food plants are false Solomon's seal, Maianthemum racemosum, wild cranes-bill, Geranium maculatum, hare figwort, Scrophularia lanceolata, and occasionally blue cohosh, Caulophyllum thalictroides. (2)

also very common on what appears to be wild onion, Allium (BG data)

Print References

Knight, H.H. 1923. Guide to the insects of Connecticut. Part IV. The Hemiptera or sucking insects of Connecticut-Family Miridae (Capsidae). State of Connecticut Geological and Natural History Survey, Bulletin 34: 422-658. (2)

Works Cited

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

2.	The Hemiptera or sucking insects of Connecticut - Family Miridae (Capsidae) Knight, Harry, H. 1923. State of Connecticut Geological and Natural History Survey.

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

5.	Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)

Contributed by Eric R. Eaton on 11 January, 2006 - 3:09pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Mike Quinn, Ron M., v belov
Last updated 20 April, 2023 - 12:42pm

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