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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » True Bugs (Heteroptera) » Lace Bugs (Tingidae) » Corythucha » Sycamore Lace Bug (Corythucha ciliata)

Species Corythucha ciliata - Sycamore Lace Bug

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Identification · Range · Food · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
Mating Lace - Corythucha ciliata - male - female Tiny insect from CT - Corythucha ciliata 5013589 Tingidae Lace Bug - Corythucha ciliata Sycamore lace bug nymphs - Corythucha ciliata Sycamore lace bugs - Corythucha ciliata What's this? Very small transparent bug - Corythucha ciliata What's this? Very small transparent bug - Corythucha ciliata Several sycamore lace bugs - Corythucha ciliata
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Hemiptera (True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies)
Suborder Heteroptera (True Bugs)
Family Tingidae (Lace Bugs)
Genus Corythucha
Species ciliata (Sycamore Lace Bug)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Corythucha ciliata (Say)
Size
Adults about 3mm
Identification
Mostly white above, with broad dark marks on front wings and on pronotal disk. The only lace bug found on Sycamore, so the host plant serves as identification.
Range
USA and Eastern Canada, wherever the host trees are found. Has also spread to Europe.
Food
Feeds on Sycamore (Platanus spp.) leaves, especially American Sycamore, Platanus occidentalis (see USDA Plants, Wikipedia).
Print References
Slater and Baranowski, p. 108, fig. 194 (1)
Internet References
University of Florida
Works Cited
1.How to Know the True Bugs
By Slater, James A., and Baranowski, Richard M.
Contributed by Hannah Nendick-Mason on 9 July, 2006 - 9:38am
Additional contributions by cotinis, Brad Barnd
Last updated 9 September, 2007 - 6:00pm

There's a different species in the southwest.
Corythucha confraterna.
… Ron Hemberger, 27 September, 2007 - 1:45pm

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