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Subfamily Bryocorinae

Representative Images

Wasp ?? - Dicyphus hesperus Nymph - Campyloneura virgula Plant Bug - Pycnoderes quadrimaculatus Dicyphini on Chamaebatiaria millefolium Dicyphini on Datura - Tupiocoris Aphid - Campyloneura virgula Miridae, dorsal - Halticotoma Dicyphus

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 Bryocorinae

Explanation of Names

Bryocorinae Baerensprung 1860

Numbers

7 tribes(1), with 20* genera in NA and ~200 genera worldwide(2)
*Bryocoris (not recorded) is added.

Identification

Recognized by the combination of 3-segmented tarsi, pulvilli attached at base of claw (sometimes difficult to see), the often distally thickened tarsi, or if slender, with tiny, indistinct claws. Eccritotarsines usually have only one closed cell on the hemelytral membrane.(3)

Works Cited

1.BioLib.cz
2.Biodiversity of the Heteroptera
Henry T.J. 2009. In: Foottit R.G., Adler P.H., eds. Insect biodiversity: Science and society. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell: 223−263.
3.Plant Bugs, or Miridae (Hemiptera Heteroptera), of Cuba (Faunistica)
Luis M. Hernández & Thomas J. Henry. 2010. Pensoft Pub.
Contributed by John R. Maxwell on 10 December, 2008 - 8:55am
Additional contributions by v belov, onegunah
Last updated 9 October, 2023 - 8:34pm

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