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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) » Bryocorinae » Dicyphini » Tupiocoris » Tupiocoris rhododendri

Species Tupiocoris rhododendri

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Range · Food · Internet References · Works Cited
Plant Bug - Tupiocoris rhododendri Plant Bug - Tupiocoris rhododendri Plant Bug - Tupiocoris rhododendri Bug on purple-flowering raspberry - Tupiocoris rhododendri Bug on purple-flowering raspberry - Tupiocoris rhododendri
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
Tribe Dicyphini
Genus Tupiocoris
Species rhododendri (Tupiocoris rhododendri)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Tupiocoris rhododendri Dolling 1972
=Dicyphus rhododendri
Range
e. US (native); introduced to Europe (1971, so. England) and spreading(1)(2)
Food
Host: native and cultivated rosebay rhododendron (Rhododendron maximum), Pinxter flower (R. periclymenoides)
Internet References
Live adult images
Works Cited
1.A Synthesis of the Holarctic Miridae (Heteroptera): Distribution, Biology, and Origin, with Emphasis on North America
A. G., Jr. Wheeler & Thomas J. Henry. 1992. Entomological Society of America.
2.Alien terrestrial arthropods of Europe
Roques A., Kenis M., Lees D., Lopez-Vaamonde C., Rabitsch W., Rasplus J.-Y., Roy D., eds. 2010. BioRisk 4 Special Issue; 2 vols., 1028 pp.
Contributed by john and jane balaban on 15 December, 2008 - 8:25pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, v belov, onegunah
Last updated 3 November, 2011 - 12:55pm

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