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Family Miridae - Plant Bugs


Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » True Bugs (Heteroptera) » Plant Bugs (Miridae)
Plant Bug Planetary Biodiversity Inventory
The Planetary Biodiversity Inventory (PBI) for Plant Bugs provides a resource about the global plant bug subfamilies Orthotylinae and Phylinae (Insecta: Heteroptera: Miridae) to scientists, conservation biologists, environmental scientists, the general public and students via the internet.
Contributed by WonGun Kim on 1 November, 2009 - 1:19am

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » True Bugs (Heteroptera) » Plant Bugs (Miridae)
Descriptions of six new species of Miridae from Eastern North America (Hemiptera, Miridae)
Canadian Entomologist 58: pp. 252-256
Author: Knight, Harry H.

Descriptions of Plagiognathus tiliae (synonymized to Plesiodema sericea), Psallus balli (transferred to Keltonia), Teleorhinus floridanus (described by Blatchley), Strongylocoris pallipes (transferred to Slaterocoris), Platytylellus zonatus (transferred to Prepops), Platytylellus confraternus var. collais (transferred to Prepops), and Sthenarus plebejus (synonymized to Sthenaridea vulgaris).
Contributed by WonGun Kim on 1 November, 2009 - 12:43am

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » True Bugs (Heteroptera) » Plant Bugs (Miridae)
On-line Systematic Catalog of Plant Bugs
From the American Museum of Natural History. A link to a portion of this guide is already under the Info tab for Miridae.
Contributed by Ken Schneider on 5 September, 2008 - 12:33pm

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » True Bugs (Heteroptera) » Plant Bugs (Miridae) » Phylinae » Phylini » Plagiognathus
Revision of the New World Plagiognathus
Full title: Revision of New World Plagiognathus Fieber : with comments on the Palearctic fauna and the description of a new genus (Heteroptera, Miridae, Phylinae). Bulletin of the AMNH ; no. 266. Author Randall T. Schuh.
Contributed by John F. Carr on 6 February, 2009 - 9:10pm

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » True Bugs (Heteroptera)
Identification Key to the Principal Families of Florida Heteroptera, by P. M. Choate
Illustrated by photographs of David Almquist. Rich bibliography provided.
Contributed by v belov on 24 December, 2009 - 9:34pm

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » True Bugs (Heteroptera)
Checklist of the Hemiptera of Oklahoma
Extensive checklist, with bibliography.

(This is an old link, formerly under Hemiptera, a classification no longer used here.)
Contributed by Cotinis on 15 November, 2007 - 8:15am

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera)
Newly emerged cicada
a very friendly newly emerged cicada from the end of summer 2008
Contributed by Martha Ramirez on 13 June, 2009 - 3:02pm

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Billd's Florida Insect Page.
This is my entomology page with photos and links about insects. I hope you use this page for science and education.
Contributed by Bill D. on 15 April, 2009 - 12:21pm


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