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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 » Plant Bugs (Miridae) » Deraeocorinae » Hyaliodini » Hyaliodes » Hart's Hyaline Plant Bug (Hyaliodes harti)
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Hemiptera? Heteroptera? - Hyaliodes harti
Copyright © 2004 Bonnie Caruthers

Hemiptera? Heteroptera? - Hyaliodes harti
Strafford, on Sassafras leaf, New Hampshire, USA
August 5, 2004
While finding "safe food" for my io larvae I keep coming across lots of white "fluff." so I decided to take some in to i.d. Well, the cast shed resulted in this little beauty. I wish I could get an even better pic but will have to wait until tomorrow's daylight. It was on Sassafras but ended up feeding on sumac (R. typhina - that's what is in pic). I lean toward an assasin bug, but I have had them hatch from eggs into typical nymph. The white shed throws me! It does have a beak and the antennae seem to have 4-segments. Any ideas???? Will take pic of shed if necessary. thanks!
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Contributed by Bonnie Caruthers on 8 August, 2004 - 11:06pm
Last updated 3 March, 2007 - 8:16pm

Moved
Moved from Hyaliodes.
Distinctive features: collar black, longer first antennal segment and apical margin of corium red (red transversal line across the wings).
… Claude Pilon, 3 March, 2007 - 8:16pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks, Claude
for adding pages and info for both of these Hyaliodes species, and for finding the updated link to vitripennis on the OMAFRA site. I've replaced the old broken link in my comment below.
… Robin McLeod, 4 March, 2007 - 3:42pm login or register to post comments

Hyaliodes sp. (Miridae)
As Eric suggested, this one is in the genus Hyaliodes. Here's a photo of H. vitripennis, and here's one of H. harti.
… Robin McLeod, 30 December, 2004 - 1:02am login or register to post comments

Miridae?
Almost certainly a mirid, some of which are predatory, but I am no authority on this group (from hell:-), so maybe someone else can volunteer an idea.
… Eric R. Eaton, 9 August, 2004 - 1:27pm login or register to post comments

 
Miridae
Hi Eric,

I think you are right. it's very pretty under the lens and is only about.125 long (if that). The closest I can find to it is the Meadow Plant Bug Leptoterna dolabrata, but haven't checked for sure. Anyway, it's always fun to find new critters while feeding my leps!

thanks!
… Bonnie Caruthers, 9 August, 2004 - 5:19pm login or register to post comments

 
I might have it:-)
Looking at my book "How to Know the True Bugs," I think this could be Hyaloides vitripennis. Maybe you want to run with it?
… Eric R. Eaton, 20 August, 2004 - 4:34pm login or register to post comments

 
You're welcome
Probably not the meadow plant bug, which is much duller, and much larger, but don't despair. The mirids are just a nightmare for everyone:-)
… Eric R. Eaton, 10 August, 2004 - 11:43am login or register to post comments

 
plant bugs
LOL! You obviously do not like these guys! I am a gardener and also get frustrated with many of the "pesty" bugs. It's funny how we separate things. If the thing was in my garden I probably would have squished if it were eating my plants, but when I find one under different circumstances I just get curious and want to know what it is. Not sure what I'll do with this one... ;-)
… Bonnie Caruthers, 10 August, 2004 - 12:29pm login or register to post comments

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