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

Genus Microtechnites

Fleahopper, female - Microtechnites bractatus - female Smal,l black, white-speckled bug - Microtechnites bractatus - female Tiny black bug - Microtechnites bractatus Miridae - ventral - Microtechnites bractatus - female Spotted insect  - Microtechnites bractatus Microtechnites ? - Microtechnites bractatus Microtechnites bractatus - Garden Fleahopper - Microtechnites bractatus Miridae, Garden Fleahopper - Microtechnites bractatus
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 Halticini
Genus Microtechnites
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Type species: Microtechnites spegazzinii Berg 1883
Explanation of Names
Microtechnites Berg 1883
Numbers
a single species in our area, 6 spp. total(1)
Range
e. NA to Argentina; 1 sp. in Hawaii(1)