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For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada

Species Lopidea media

Mirid - Lopidea media - male
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 Orthotylinae
Tribe Orthotylini
Genus Lopidea
Species media (Lopidea media)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Lopidea media (Say)
Orig. Comb: Capsus medius Say 1832
Identification

Det. Brad Barnd, 2013, ID'd from specimen
Range
CA-FL-NB-AB / Mex. Map (1)(2), most records n. US & Can.
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.Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)