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Species Eustictus knighti

Plant Bug? - Eustictus knighti Eustictus knighti Johnston - Eustictus knighti Fulvius? - Eustictus knighti - male
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 knighti (Eustictus knighti)
Other Common Names
(the hairy knight mirid, joking, short of)
Explanation of Names
Eustictus knighti Johnston, 1930
named in honor of Dr. H. H. Knight (1)
Identification
"Hind tibiae covered with very long erect hairs, also a few long erect hairs on apex of hind femora." (1) (the long hairs on the hind legs are clearly visible in the enlarged thumbnail)
- coll'ed at UV light near type locality (same county)
Det. M. A. Quinn, 2023
Range
TX (1)(2), Holo-, Allo- and Paratypes all from College Station, yet no locality data from TAMUIC or any other database in GBIF (3)
Remarks
Holotype: male, May 9, 1929, College Station, Texas (H. G. Johnston); author’s collection.
Allotype: female, May 22, 1930, College Station, Texas (H. G. Johnston).
Paratypes: 10 taken with the holotype. October 6; October 7; October 21, 1928, topotypic (S. E. Jones). May 16, 1929; 2 May 7, 1930, topotypic (H. G. Johnston).
All the [var. type] specimens were taken at light traps. U.S.N.M. collection. (1)
See Also
Eustictus albomaculatus Johnston, 1939 - eyes smaller, but further apart (ain't that fun!!), also, short erect hairs on the hind tibia (4)
- Range: Texas
Det. M. A. Quinn, 2023
Print References
Johnston, H.G. (1930) Four new species of Miridae from Texas (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society 25: 295-300. (1)
Works Cited
1.Four new species of Miridae from Texas (Hemiptera).
Johnston, H.G. 1930. Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society 25: 295-300.
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.Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
4.Five new species of Miridae from Texas (Hemiptera).
Johnston, H.G. 1939. Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society 34: 129-133.