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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » True Bugs (Heteroptera) » Cimicomorpha » Cimicoidea » Minute Pirate Bugs (Anthocoridae) » Anthocorini » Anthocoris » Anthocoris confusus

Species Anthocoris confusus

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Season · Remarks · Internet References · Works Cited

Anthocoris confusus (Reuter) - Anthocoris confusus

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 Cimicoidea

Family Anthocoridae (Minute Pirate Bugs)

Tribe Anthocorini

Genus Anthocoris

Species confusus (Anthocoris confusus)

Explanation of Names

Anthocoris confusus Reuter 1884

Size

3.1-4 mm(1)

Identification

very difficult to separate from A. nemoralis, but the latter generally appears to have paler femora(2)

Range

native to, and widespread across the Palaearctic(3), adventive in NA (NS-ON-NY, TN, BC; introduced on multiple occasions; may not ber etablished)(4)(5)

Habitat

on various deciduous trees(2)

Season

year-round in the UK(2)

Remarks

earliest record in our area: NY 1932(5)

Internet References

Species page (Bantock & Botting 2010)(2)

Works Cited

1.	Keys to the insects of the European part of the USSR. Vol. I: Apterygota, Palaeoptera, Hemimetabola Bei-Bienko G.Y., ed. 1964. Leningrad: Zool. Inst. 935 pp.

2.	Bantock T., Botting J. (2010‒) British Bugs, an online identification guide to UK Hemiptera

3.	Keys to the insects of the Far East of the USSR, Vol. 2. Homoptera and Heteroptera Lehr, P. A., ed. 1988. Leningrad, Nauka Publishing House.

4.	The non-indigenous Lyctocoridae and Anthocoridae (Hemiptera : Heteroptera : Cimicoidea) of America North of Mexico Lattin J.D. 2007. Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. 109: 366‒376.

5.	Alien true bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) in Canada: composition and adaptations Scudder G.G.E., Foottit R.G. 2006. Can. Entomol. 138: 24-51.

Contributed by v belov on 4 March, 2015 - 7:56am
Last updated 15 August, 2019 - 3:14pm

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