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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) » Phylinae » Semiini » Semium » Semium hirtum

Species Semium hirtum

Classification · Other Common Names · Explanation of Names · Size · Range · Season · Food · Remarks · Works Cited

Plant Bug [Semium? hirtum??] ID Request - Semium hirtum

Semium hirtum from North Central Texas - Semium hirtum

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 Phylinae

Tribe Semiini

Genus Semium

Species hirtum (Semium hirtum)

Other Common Names

Spotted Spurge Mirid

Explanation of Names

Semium hirtum Reuter 1876

hirtum (L). "rough, hairy' (1)

Size

~2.8 mm(2)

Range

e. US (s.ON-SD to FL-TX) / e. Mex. - Map (3)(4)

Season

mostly: Sept-Oct. (BG data)

Food

asso. w/ spotted spurge (Chamaesyce (=Euphorbia) maculata, Euphorbiaceae) (5)

Remarks

Type Locality: Texas

Works Cited

1.	Dictionary of Word Roots and Combining Forms Donald J. Borror. 1960. Mayfield Publishing Company.

2.	How to Know the True Bugs Slater, James A., and Baranowski, Richard M. 1978. Wm. C. Brown Company.

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

4.	Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)

5.	iNaturalist

Contributed by WonGun Kim on 28 October, 2011 - 8:48pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 25 October, 2023 - 12:29pm

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