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Species Deraeocoris pinicola

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Deraeocoris pinicola - female Deraeocoris pinicola - female Deraeocoris pinicola - 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
Tribe Deraeocorini
Genus Deraeocoris
Species pinicola (Deraeocoris pinicola)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Deraeocoris pinicola Knight, 1921

Identification

Claws not or only slightly cleft at base, scutellum impunctate (Knight's group C/V); glabrous dorsum, females with hairs on antennal segment 2 not extremely long (length 2x or less thickness of segment), calli typically white anteriorly with variably sized black marking behind, rarely entirely black (1)

Range

Eastern: CT, DC, IA, MA, MN, NH, NY, WV (2); also GA (3)

Habitat

Typically found on white pine (Pinus strobus).

Food

Predacious, reported to feed on Chermes pinicorticis (2)

Works Cited

1.The Hemiptera or sucking insects of Connecticut - Family Miridae (Capsidae)
Knight, Harry, H. 1923. State of Connecticut Geological and Natural History Survey.
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.An annotated list of the Miridae of Georgia (Hemiptera-Heteroptera)
Henry TJ and CL Smith. 1979. Journal of the Georgia Entomological Society 14: 212--220.
Contributed by Brad Barnd on 22 August, 2024 - 8:42pm

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