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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) » Phylinae » Cremnorrhinini » Coquillettia » Coquillettia albella

Species Coquillettia albella

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Range · Habitat · Season · See Also · Print References · Works Cited
Male, Coquillettia albella? - Coquillettia albella - male Male, Coquillettia albella? - Coquillettia albella - male Male, Coquillettia albella? - Coquillettia albella - male Coquillettia - Coquillettia albella
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 Phylinae
Tribe Cremnorrhinini
Genus Coquillettia
Species albella (Coquillettia albella)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Coquillettia albella Knight, 1968 (description, current combination)
Size
male 4.09-4.52 mm(1) (female apparently unknown)
Range
s.CA to w.TX, NV-UT / Mex. (Sonora) - Map (1)(2)
Habitat
on Baileya multiradiata, Lesquerella gordonii, and Eriogonum(1)
Season
March-August, but mostly collected in April(1)
See Also
Ticua granulata Wyniger looks similar, but has a more distinctly arcing fuscous band on the distal portion of the membrane, and is smaller (male 3.19-3.39 mm)(1).
Print References
Knight, H.H. (1968) Taxonomic review: Miridae of the Nevada test site and the western United States. Brigham Young University Science Bulletin, Biological Series 9: 282 pp.
Works Cited
1.Revision of the Nearctic Genus Coquillettia Uhler With a Transfer to the Tribe Phylini, the Description of 14 New Species, ...
Denise Wyniger. 2011. New York Entomological Society.
2.Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
Contributed by Jason Botz on 12 March, 2020 - 1:27pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn
Last updated 27 April, 2023 - 10:40am

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