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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » True Bugs (Heteroptera) » Cimicomorpha » Miroidea » Plant Bugs (Miridae) » Mirinae » Mirini » Neurocolpus » mexicanus group (Neurocolpus mexicanus group) » Neurocolpus simplex
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Yellow mirid (?) with strange antennae - Neurocolpus simplex
Copyright © 2017 Ken Schneider

Yellow mirid (?) with strange antennae - Neurocolpus simplex
Upper Chemehuevi Wash at US-95, San Bernardino County, California, USA
April 18, 2017
Size: ca 6 mm
I beat this cool yellow bug from a yellow-flowering tree in a desert wash, likely Parkinsonia (paloverde). I thought it might be a reduviid in the field, but it looks like perhaps it's one of those mirids with strange antennae? Or do I have the wrong family?

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Contributed by Ken Schneider on 18 April, 2017 - 9:43pm
Last updated 1 February, 2019 - 11:09am

Moved
Moved from Neurocolpus.

It looks like a good match with specimens of N. simplex identified by F. Werner in the University of Arizona Insect Collection.
… Jason Botz, 1 February, 2019 - 11:09am login or register to post comments

Maybe N. simplex -
it's not possible to fully key it out from Knight 1968, as I don't have images of the ventral surface, but certainly fits the description of N. simplex (color uniformly yellowish) and I beat it from the host plant.
… Ken Schneider, 18 April, 2017 - 10:58pm login or register to post comments

Wondering if it might be Neurocolpus...


EDIT: Evidently, it is. :)
… Ken Wolgemuth, 18 April, 2017 - 9:59pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Plant Bugs.
… v belov, 18 April, 2017 - 9:58pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies.
… Ken Wolgemuth, 18 April, 2017 - 9:48pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks -
Ken!!
… Ken Schneider, 18 April, 2017 - 9:51pm login or register to post comments

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