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Family Tingidae - Lace Bugs

Corythucha on brittlebush (Encelia farinosa) - Corythucha

Small, brown heteropteran with thick antennae - Teleonemia

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

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 sculptured lacelike pattern of the dorsum; nymphs are usually spiny and black. Other important characters (5):

ocelli absent

beak and antennae four-jointed

scutellum absent or much reduced, replaced by the angular hind portions of the pronotum

tarsi two-jointed

Keys to FL spp. in(6)

Links to images of the missing genera (binomina indicate genera represented in our area by a single species; adventive taxa in brackets): Acanthocheila, Dichocysta pictipes, Galeatus spinifrons, Phymacysta tumida

Range

worldwide and throughout NA(1)

Food

Feed mainly on leaves of trees and shrubs, causing yellow spotting and sometimes browning and death of the leaves(7)

Life Cycle

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

Print References

(8)(9)(10)*

*Online version here

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

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

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

10.	Encyclopedia of Entomology, 2nd ed Capinera J.L., ed. 2008. Springer, lxiii+4346 pp. (4 vols.).

Contributed by Troy Bartlett on 16 February, 2004 - 12:32pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, Beatriz Moisset, Boris Bueche, v belov
Last updated 16 March, 2015 - 9:59pm

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