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Species Prepops borealis

Plant Bug - Prepops borealis   - Prepops borealis
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 Resthenini
Genus Prepops
Species borealis (Prepops borealis)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Prepops borealis (Knight), 1923
Platytylellus borealis (Knight), 1923
Explanation of Names
Prepops borealis (Knight), 1923
Identification
P. nigripilus was described with the scutellum yellow.
Range
Alberta, Connecticut, Manitoba., Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota, New York, Ontario, Pennsylvania, Quebec, Saskatchewan,
Wisconsin(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.