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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) » Orthotylinae » Orthotylini » Blepharidopterus » Black-kneed Capsid (Blepharidopterus angulatus)

Species Blepharidopterus angulatus - Black-kneed Capsid

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Food · Life Cycle · Internet References · Works Cited

Heteroptera 03a - Blepharidopterus angulatus

Heteroptera 03b - Blepharidopterus angulatus

Plant Bug IMG_5135 - Blepharidopterus angulatus

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 Orthotylinae

Tribe Orthotylini

Genus Blepharidopterus

Species angulatus (Black-kneed Capsid)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

described in 1807 by Fallén

Size

5-6 mm

Identification

body slender, parallel-sided, green with small black patches at base of tibia ("knees"), base of antennal segments, and at posterior angles of pronotum; length of first antennal segment approximately equal to width of head; antennae usually very long in males; variable yellow markings on scutellum and forewings; other NA Blepharidopterus spp. lack black markings

Range

native to the Palaearctic, adventive in our area (NS-PA-MI-BC)(1)(2)

Habitat

on trees

Food

nymphs and adults feed on mites, mite eggs, aphids and other soft-bodied arthropods found on fruit trees and other deciduous trees(3)(4)

Life Cycle

one generation per year; overwinters as an egg; eggs are laid singly deep into one- or two-year-old wood of hostplant; nymphs emerge from early to mid summer and develop through five instars

Internet References

live adult images & species profile (British Bugs)

Works Cited

1.	Schuh, R.T. 2002-2013. On-line Systematic Catalog of Plant Bugs (Insecta: Heteroptera: Miridae).

2.	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.

3.	Biology of the plant bugs (Hemiptera: Miridae): pests, predators, opportunists Wheeler A.G., Jr. 2001. Cornell University Press, 456 pp.

4.	A color handbook of biological control in plant protection N. Helyer, K. Brown, N.D. Cattlin. 2003. Timber Press, Protland, OR. 126 pp.

Contributed by Robin McLeod on 10 February, 2009 - 11:26pm
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 4 January, 2011 - 3:48pm

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