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Species Neocapsus leviscutatus

black and yellow bug - Neocapsus leviscutatus

Black and Orange Plant Bug - Posterior Dorsal - Neocapsus leviscutatus

Neocapsus cuneatus - Neocapsus leviscutatus

Black and orange insect - Neocapsus leviscutatus

bug found on ground - Neocapsus leviscutatus

Plant Bug, I believe Neocapsus cuneatus. - Neocapsus leviscutatus

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 Neocapsus

Species leviscutatus (Neocapsus leviscutatus)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

≡Neocapsus cuneatus leviscutatus ≡Rhasis leviscutatus

US records of N. cuneatus Distant are probably in error(1) and refer to N. leviscutatus ― M.D. Schwartz (pers. comm. to =v=) has reviewed BG images posted as of 7.viii.2023 and confirmed they all show N. leviscutatus

Explanation of Names

Neocapsus leviscutatus Knight 1925

leviscutatus 'with smooth shield'

Size

5.5‒5.9 mm(2)

Identification

Very similar to cuncatus Distant, but scutellum entirely smooth; shining black, pronotum and scutellum orange red, but with subbasal margin of pronotal disk, calli, and anteriorly, except collar, more or less black; front of head reddish, but with black appearing on tylus and just above base of antennae(2)

Range

se.US (WV‒MO to MS‒TX)(1)

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.	Neocapsus cuneatus Distant in Arizona and Texas, with a variety described from Mississippi and North Carolina (Heterop. Miridae) Knight, H.H. 1925. Entomological News 6: 78-79.

Contributed by Lynette Elliott on 21 January, 2009 - 9:07am
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov, onegunah, PaleoJon
Last updated 9 December, 2024 - 1:11pm

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