Species Eustictus albomaculatus

Classification · Explanation of Names · Identification · Range · Remarks · See Also · Print References · Works Cited

Eustictus albomaculatus Johnston - Eustictus albomaculatus - 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 Deraeocorinae

Genus Eustictus

Species albomaculatus (Eustictus albomaculatus)

Explanation of Names

Eustictus albomaculatus Johnston, 1939

basal half of cuneus opaque white (1)

Identification

eyes smaller than knighti, but wider apart; short erect hairs on the hind tibia

Det. M. A. Quinn, 2023

E. albomaculatus was the last US sp. of Eustictus to be described(2), and Johnston(1) only lists E. knighti as being similar to it in Texas. (E. albocuneatus, as the name suggests, is also similar(3), but is restricted to AZ(2))

Range

TX (type series Hidalgo & Dimmit Co.) (1)(2), no locality data from TAMUIC or any other database in GBIF (4)

Remarks

Holotype: male, May 20, 1930, Weslaco, Texas (J. C. Gaines),

Paratypes: 1 male taken with type at trap light;

2 males, June 7, 1933, 2 males, June 30, 1935, 1 male September 10, 1935, Dimmit Co., Texas (S. E. Jones), at trap light. (1)

See Also

"Allied to knighti Johnston, but differs in the absence of long hairs on [hind] tibiae, shorter rostrum and much larger eyes." (1) (Note, I initially misinterpreted this as albomaculatus having the larger eyes)

- Range: TX

Det. M. A. Quinn, 2023

photo from College Station, knighti type locality; in addition to the larger eyes, the long hairs on the hind tibia (towards the base of the hind tibia) are clearly visibile in the enlarged thumbnail, as well as long hairs on the apical hind femora (5)

Print References

Johnston, H.G. (1939) Five new species of Miridae from Texas (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society 34: 129-133. (1)

Works Cited

1.	Five new species of Miridae from Texas (Hemiptera). Johnston, H.G. 1939. Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society 34: 129-133.

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.	New species and a new genus of Deraeocorinae from North America (Hemiptera, Miridea). Knight, H.H. 1927. Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society 22: 136-143.

4.	Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)

5.	Four new species of Miridae from Texas (Hemiptera). Johnston, H.G. 1930. Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society 25: 295-300.

Contributed by Mike Quinn on 25 April, 2023 - 8:54pm
Last updated 26 April, 2023 - 3:25pm

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