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Genus Physatocheila

lace bugs - Physatocheila variegata - male - female

Lacebug - Physatocheila variegata - female

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)

Subfamily Tinginae

Tribe Tingini

Genus Physatocheila

Explanation of Names

Physatocheila Fieber 1844

Numbers

5 spp. in our area(1), ~60 spp. worldwide(2)

Range

NA & most of the Old World(2)

Works Cited

1.	Catalog of the Heteroptera, or True Bugs of Canada and the Continental United States Thomas J. Henry, Richard C. Froeschner. 1988. Brill Academic Publishers.

2.	Guilbert E. (2013) Lace bugs database

Contributed by tom murray on 20 September, 2007 - 10:38pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, v belov
Last updated 3 October, 2013 - 4:47pm

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