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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) » Mirinae » Mirini » Polymerus » Red-spotted Aster Mirid (Polymerus basalis)

Species Polymerus basalis - Red-spotted Aster Mirid

Classification · Explanation of Names · Identification · Range · Habitat · Season · Food · Remarks · Print References · Works Cited

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 Mirini

Genus Polymerus

Species basalis (Red-spotted Aster Mirid)

Explanation of Names

Polymerus basalis (Reuter 1876)

Identification

variable:

Range

e. NA to s. Calif. (QC‒ON to FL‒CA) / Mex. - Map (1)(2)

Habitat

almost always on flowers

Season

most abundant in the fall (Snodgrass et al. 1984)

Food

Feeds mostly on Asteraceae (Snodgrass et al. 1984)

Remarks

Type Locality: Texas

Print References

Snodgrass G.L., Scott W.P., Smith J.W. (1984) Host plants of Taylorilygus pallidulus and Polymerus basalis (Hemiptera: Miridae) in the Delta of Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi. Fla. Entomol. 67: 402‒408. (Full text)

Works Cited

1.	Catalog of the Heteroptera, or True Bugs of Canada and the Continental United States Thomas J. Henry, Richard C. Froeschner. 1988. Brill Academic Publishers.

2.	Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)

Contributed by Ron M. on 19 December, 2008 - 5:28am
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 11 April, 2024 - 1:29pm

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