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Subfamily Bryocorinae

Very small red eyed bug - Tupiocoris notatus Which Plant Bug Adult is this? - Campyloneura virgula Mirid nymph - Campyloneura virgula Dicyphini? - Tupiocoris notatus Mirid Bug - Tupiocoris adult lateral - Sixeonotus - female Dicyphus? - Dicyphus Engytatus modestus? - Engytatus modestus
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.