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Which bug, please? - Polymerus proximus

Which bug, please? - Polymerus proximus
Herring Run Park, Baltimore City County, Maryland, USA
May 16, 2007
I believe the plant is Galium aparine.

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Moved from Polymerus.

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Moved from Neurocolpus.

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It looks like Polymerus proximus
Black body + uniformly black tibiae + white area (tip of scutellum, anal ridge, narrow area at apex of cuneus, slender line on fracture).

See http://research.amnh.org/pbi/library/2261-601.pdf.

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Moved from Plant Bugs.

I confirm the plant
. . . and by this information, guess that the Mirid is of the genus Polymerus (live on Galium spp.). Compare of a similar, but distinct, European species:

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Moved from True Bugs.

Miridae.
A nice image of a mirid plant bug.

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