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Species Stenodema trispinosum

Plant Bug - Stenodema sp? - Stenodema trispinosum

Elongate pale mirid - Stenodema trispinosum

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 Mirinae

Tribe Stenodemini

Genus Stenodema

No Taxon (subgenus Brachystira)

Species trispinosum (Stenodema trispinosum)

Explanation of Names

Stenodema trispinosum Reuter 1904

trispinosum = 'three-spined' (refers to the key feature on metafemur)

Identification

the three spines on the hind femur separate it from other congeners

Range

holarctic, transcontinental in both NA (across Canada to so. US) and Eurasia(1)

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.

Contributed by Tony DiTerlizzi on 23 April, 2005 - 9:38am
Additional contributions by Robin McLeod, v belov, onegunah
Last updated 13 March, 2016 - 5:53pm

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