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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) » Phylinae » Phylini » Oncotylina » Parapsallus » Parapsallus vitellinus

Species Parapsallus vitellinus

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Food · Remarks · Internet References · Works Cited

Yellow Plant Bug - Parapsallus vitellinus

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 Phylinae

Tribe Phylini

Subtribe Oncotylina

Genus Parapsallus

Species vitellinus (Parapsallus vitellinus)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Psallus vitellinus, Plagiognathus vitellinus

Explanation of Names

Parapsallus vitellinus (Scholtz 1847)

Size

♂ 2.86-3.50 mm, ♀ 3.04-3.30(1)

Identification

Recognized by relatively small size with average total length 3.26 mm, uniform orange coloration of dorsum, pale coloration of antennal segment 1, narrow dark band at base of antennal segment 2 with remainder of segment pale, and generally pale coloration of legs, the femora with some weak dark blotches and tibial spines with distinct, although not particularly large, dark spots at bases.

Distinguished from Plagiognathus delicatus and lighter colored Plagiognathus cornicola specimens by pale coloration of antennal segment 1. Distinguished from Plagiognathus viticola by uniformly orange coloration of dorsum and black spots at bases of tibial spines.(1)

Range

native to, and widely distributed in, the Palearctic; introduced into ne. NA (NS-ON-IA south to VA)(1)(2)

Food

Host: Picea spp.(1)

Remarks

earliest NA record: ON 1961(2)

Internet References

Species page(3)

Works Cited

1.	Revision of the New World Plagiognathus

2.	Alien true bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) in Canada: composition and adaptations Scudder G.G.E., Foottit R.G. 2006. Can. Entomol. 138: 24-51.

3.	Skipper L. (2003-2012) Danmarks Blomstertæger

Contributed by tom murray on 5 December, 2008 - 6:17pm
Additional contributions by v belov, onegunah
Last updated 19 December, 2013 - 2:01pm

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