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Genus Tetraphleps

Unknown Anthocorid - Tetraphleps latipennis

Tetraphleps uniformis (Parshley) - Tetraphleps canadensis

Tetraphleps pilosipes (Kelton and Anderson) - Tetraphleps pilosipes

Tetraphleps canadensis (Provancher) - Tetraphleps pilosipes

Pirate bug? Swept from vegetation in a montane spruce forest - Tetraphleps canadensis

Anthocoridae, from Blackcomb Lake - Tetraphleps

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 Cimicoidea

Family Anthocoridae (Minute Pirate Bugs)

Tribe Anthocorini

Genus Tetraphleps

Explanation of Names

Tetraphleps Fieber 1860

Numbers

5 spp. in our area, 11 total(1)

Range

holarctic, in NA northern & western(1)(2)

Remarks

south Asian T. abdulghani Ghauri and T. raoi Ghauri released (in PNW, NB, NS) to control Adelges piceae have failed to establish(3)

Works Cited

1.	Tetraphleps uniformis Parshley, 1920, a synonym of Tetraphleps canadensis Provancher, 1886, and Tetraphleps furvus Van Duzee... Lattin J.D. 2006. Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. 108: 241-242.

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

3.	The non-indigenous Lyctocoridae and Anthocoridae (Hemiptera : Heteroptera : Cimicoidea) of America North of Mexico Lattin J.D. 2007. Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. 109: 366-376.

Contributed by v belov on 23 March, 2009 - 5:48pm
Last updated 17 August, 2019 - 7:41pm

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