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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 » Adelphocoris » Alfalfa Plant Bug (Adelphocoris lineolatus)
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Plant bug - Adelphocoris lineolatus
Copyright © 2008 John F. Carr

Plant bug - Adelphocoris lineolatus
Copake, Columbia County, New York, USA
June 21, 2008
Size: 6.5 mm
On a roadside flower.

ID based on description on guide page.
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Contributed by John F. Carr on 25 June, 2008 - 2:43pm
Last updated 28 June, 2008 - 11:20am

Mirid is probably as good as it gets
This is what I call, untechnically, a monochrome mirid. Apparently, they're hard to ID to anything tighter than that, based on many posts here.
… Ron Hemberger, 25 June, 2008 - 5:20pm login or register to post comments

 
Alfafa plant bug?
I note that it is a good match for the very first entry in Miridae, Adelphocoris lineolatus. Did I get lucky?
… John F. Carr, 25 June, 2008 - 5:35pm login or register to post comments

 
Lucky? I don't know.
Here's one that has an expert ID. It also has two black dots absent on the specimen in this post. (Apparently, the spots are variable.)



I don't think we can be sure from a photo.
… Ron Hemberger, 13 August, 2008 - 11:23pm login or register to post comments

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