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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 » Acalypta

Genus Acalypta

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Food · Works Cited
Acalypta sp. - Acalypta nyctalis - female Acalypta sp. - Acalypta nyctalis - female Hemiptera - Acalypta cooleyi Bug - Acalypta parvula Acalypta elegans Acalypta saundersi Acalypta? - Acalypta Lace Bug - Acalypta? - Acalypta
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 Acalypta
Explanation of Names
Acalypta Westwood 1840
Numbers
9 spp. in our area (incl. one adventive), 11 spp. in the New World, 50 spp. total(1)(2)
Identification
key to spp. in (3), parts of it amended in (1)
Range
holarctic; in NA, widespread yet conspicuously absent from large inner parts of the continent (the Great Plains, the Great Basin and the arid Southwest)(1)
Food
unlike any other tingids, they live primarily on mosses (occasional development on seed plants observed)(1)
Works Cited
1.Zoogeographic notes on the lace bug genus Acalypta Westwood in the Americas with description of a new species from Mexico...
Froeschner R.C. 1976. American Midland Naturalist 96: 257-269.
2.Guilbert E. (2013) Lace bugs database
3.American species of the lacebug genus Acalypta (Hemiptera: Tingidae)
Drake C.J., Lattin J.D. 1963. Proc. USNM 115: 331–345.
Contributed by Brad Barnd on 26 September, 2008 - 9:55pm
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 14 August, 2019 - 12:44pm

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