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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 » Tropidosteptes » Tropidosteptes vittifrons

Species Tropidosteptes vittifrons

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Season · Works Cited
Female, Tropidosteptes? - Tropidosteptes vittifrons - female Female, Tropidosteptes? - Tropidosteptes vittifrons - female Male, Tropidosteptes? - Tropidosteptes vittifrons - male Male, Tropidosteptes? - Tropidosteptes vittifrons - male Tropidosteptes vittifrons - male Female, Tropidosteptes vittifrons? - Tropidosteptes vittifrons - 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 Miridae (Plant Bugs)
Subfamily Mirinae
Tribe Mirini
Genus Tropidosteptes
Species vittifrons (Tropidosteptes vittifrons)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Neoborus vittifrons (Knight), 1929
Explanation of Names
Tropidosteptes vittifrons (Knight), 1929

vitti- (Latin, "striped") + frons
Size
Male, 3.9 mm; female, 4.2 mm(1)
Identification
Similar to adustus, "but distinguished by the narrower calli with black cephalic margins and the more closely punctate pronotal disk." In females, "black marks on frons and calli frequently reduced to dark brown."(1)
Range
AZ, NV, UT(2)
Habitat
"Common in Arizona, breeding on Fraxinus arizonicus".(3)
Season
Apr-Sep
Works Cited
1.New species of Neoborus and Xenoborus (Hemiptera, Miridae)
Knight, H. H. 1929.
2.Catalog of the Heteroptera, or True Bugs of Canada and the Continental United States
Thomas J. Henry, Richard C. Froeschner. 1988. Brill Academic Publishers.
3.Taxonomic review: Miridae of the Nevada test site and the western United States
Knight, Harry H. 1968. Brigham Young University.
Contributed by Jason Botz on 17 January, 2019 - 3:12pm
Last updated 17 January, 2019 - 5:37pm

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