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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

Species Neurocolpus simplex

Classification · Explanation of Names · Identification · Range · Habitat · Works Cited
Yellow mirid (?) with strange antennae - Neurocolpus simplex Yellow mirid (?) with strange antennae - Neurocolpus simplex Yellow mirid (?) with strange antennae - Neurocolpus simplex
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 Neurocolpus
No Taxon (mexicanus group)
Species simplex (Neurocolpus simplex)
Explanation of Names
Neurocolpus simplex Van Duzee 1918
Identification
"Antennal segment I widest at the inflated apex; rostrum just attaining posterior margin of middle coxae; color uniformly yellowish or fulvous" (Knight, 1968).(1)
In males, "apical area of corium sometimes clouded with light brown to fuscous" (Henry & Kim, 1984).(2)
Range
AZ, CA(3)
Habitat
Parkinsonia (palo verde) (collection data from BG and University of Arizona Insect Collection).
Works Cited
1.Taxonomic review: Miridae of the Nevada test site and the western United States
Knight, Harry H. 1968. Brigham Young University.
2.Genus Neurocolpus Reuter (Heteroptera: Miridae): Taxonomy, economic implications, hosts and phylogenenetic review
Henry, Thomas J. and Kim, K.C. 1984. American Entomological Society.
3.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 Jason Botz on 1 February, 2019 - 10:48am
Last updated 1 February, 2019 - 12:35pm

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