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Family Tingidae - Lace Bugs

Corythucha Lacebug - Corythucha marmorata

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 Tingidae (Lace Bugs)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Tingitidae

treated by some in a suprfamily of its own, Tingoidea

Explanation of Names

Tingidae LaPorte 1832

Numbers

~165 spp. in 24 genera in our area (all but one in the Tinginae)(1), ~2,350 spp. in >280 genera worldwide(2) arranged in 3 subfamilies(3); at least two of the genera recorded in NA represent adventive European spp. (images: a, b)

Size

3‒5 mm (NA)(1), 2‒8+ mm worldwide(4)

Identification

Adults have a lacelike pattern of the dorsum; nymphs usually spiny and black. Other important characters (5): ocelli absent • beak and antennae 4-segmented • scutellum hidden under posterior portion of pronotum • tarsi 2-segmented

Keys to FL spp. in (6)

habitus photos of 60 spp.(7), including 15 spp. not yet in the guide

Range

worldwide and throughout NA(1)

Food

Feed mainly on leaves, causing yellow spotting and sometimes browning and death of the leaves(8)

Life Cycle

Eggs usually laid on the underside of leaves near veins(1) in the domatia(9)

Print References

(10)(11)(12)

Bailey N.S. (1951) The Tingoidea of New England and their biology. Entomologica Americana (N.S.) 31: 1‒140.

Bailey N.S. (1960) Additions to the bioecology of the New England Tingidae and Piesmidae (Heteroptera). Psyche 66: 63‒69.

Internet References

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Works Cited

1.	American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico Ross H. Arnett. 2000. CRC Press.

2.	Guilbert E. (2013) Lace bugs database

3.	Phylogeny of Cantacaderinae (Het.: Tingidae) revisited after the description of a new genus and new species from New Caledonia Guilbert E. 2012. Eur. J. Entomol. 109: 111-116.

4.	Biodiversity of the Heteroptera Henry T.J. 2009. In: Foottit R.G., Adler P.H., eds. Insect biodiversity: Science and society. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell: 223−263.

5.	An Introduction to Entomology John Henry Comstock. 1933. The Comstock publishing Co.

6.	Key to Tingidae of Florida, by A. Bisson, S. Clark, M. Lehnert, R. Stein

7.	Photo gallery of the Spencer Entomological Collection

8.	Borror and DeLong's Introduction to the Study of Insects Norman F. Johnson, Charles A. Triplehorn. 2004. Brooks Cole.

9.	Hidden Company that Trees Keep: Life from Treetops to Root Tips James B. Nardi. 2023. Princeton University Press.

10.	Lacebugs of the World: A Catalog (Hemiptera: Tingidae) Drake, C.J. & F.A Ruhoff. 1965. Bulletin of the United States National Museum, (243): 1-634, 57 plates, 6 figures.

11.	The Tingitoidea of Ohio (Ohio Biological Survey Bulletin: volume 2 number 4-Bulletin 8) Osborn, Herbert, and Drake, Carl John. 1916. Ohio State University.

12.	Tingoidea of Oklahoma (Hemiptera) Drew W.A., Arnold D.C. 1977. Proc. Oklahoma Acad. Sci. 57: 29-31.

13.	TingID: Identification of lace bugs intercepted at U.S. ports of entry

Contributed by Troy Bartlett on 16 February, 2004 - 12:32pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, Beatriz Moisset, Mike Quinn, Boris Bueche, v belov, Marci Hess
Last updated 17 November, 2023 - 9:01pm

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