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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 » Lace Bugs (Tingidae) » Tinginae » Tingini » Corythucha

Genus Corythucha

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Food · Remarks · Works Cited
Corythucha immaculata? - Corythucha immaculata Little white flying bug - Corythucha Finger bug - Corythucha marmorata noticed it as it was Corythucha marmorata (Uhler) - Corythucha marmorata Tingidae ? - Corythucha marmorata Lace bug on milkweed - Corythucha Lace bug - Corythucha
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 Corythucha
Explanation of Names
Corythucha Stål 1873
Numbers
with ~50 spp., the largest lace bug genus in our area(1); 70 spp. total(2)
Identification
excellent habitus photos of 25 spp.(3), including several not yet in the guide (bulbosa, gossypii, hewitti, padi)
an out-of-date key to spp. in (4) --at least a dozen spp. added subsequently
Range
New World(2) (some Nearctic spp. spread to Europe and other parts of the world)
Food
Leaf feeders, most species have restricted food preferences.
Remarks
Some are considered pests
Works Cited
1.American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico
Ross H. Arnett. 2000. CRC Press.
2.Guilbert E. (2013) Lace bugs database
3.Photo gallery of the Spencer Entomological Collection
4.The genus Corythucha Stål (Tingidae; Heteroptera)
Gibson E.H. 1918. Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. 44: 69-104.
Contributed by tom murray on 14 May, 2005 - 7:58am
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, kschnei, v belov
Last updated 20 September, 2019 - 6:24pm

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