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Tribe Stenodemini

Unidentified Insect - Leptopterna dolabrata Which bug am I, please? - Leptopterna dolabrata Stenodema trispinosum mostly green bug True Bug Maybe ? - Stenodema trispinosum Miridae? - Megaloceroea recticornis FL-1 - Collaria oculata Not sure - Stenodema trispinosum
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 Mirinae
Tribe Stenodemini
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
includes Pithanini Douglas & Scott 1865(1)
Explanation of Names
Stenodemini China 1943
Numbers
16 genera in our area, 210 spp. in 35 genera total(1)
Identification
Key to genera in (1)
Range
worldwide(1)
Food
on grasses
Remarks
Genera Acetropis, Actinocoris, Autumnimiris, Chaetofoveolocoris, Chaetomiris, Collaria, Dolichomiris, Leptopterna, Litomiris, Megaloceroea, Mimoceps, Pithanus, Porpomiris, Stenodema, Teratocoris, Trigonotylus
Works Cited
1.Revision of the Stenodemini with a review of the included genera (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae: Mirinae)
Michael D. Schwartz. 2008. Entomological Society of Washington.