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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 » Adelphocoris » Rapid Plant Bug (Adelphocoris rapidus)

Species Adelphocoris rapidus - Rapid Plant Bug

Classification · Other Common Names · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · Life Cycle · Works Cited

Rapid Plant Bug (Adelphocoris rapidus)? - Adelphocoris rapidus

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 Adelphocoris

Species rapidus (Rapid Plant Bug)

Other Common Names

Superb Plant Bug

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

A. superbus (Uhler 1875); A. dinsmorei Bliven 1959; A. idahoensis Bliven 1959

Explanation of Names

Adelphocoris rapidus (Say 1832)

rapidus 'quick'

Size

7―8 mm

Identification

note: very long antenna, a relatively small head, and the color of the antennal segments (adapted from wongun's comments on iNat)

first image is the most common form:

these alternate forms (A. superbus) are of western distribution:

Range

most of NA (AK―NS to Mexico; map)(1)(2)(3)

Season

May-Oct(3)

Food

Feeds mostly on dock (Rumex), sometimes on cotton, legumes (Fabaceae)(4)

Life Cycle

Eggs deposited individually in host soft tissue. Adults disperse in summer and early fall, one or more generations per year

Works Cited

1.	Checklist of the Hemiptera of Canada and Alaska Maw, H.E.L., R.G. Foottit, K.G.A. Hamilton and G.G.E. Scudder. 2000. NRC Research Press.

2.	Alaskan Heteroptera (Hemiptera): New records, associated data, and deletions Scudder G.G.E., Sikes D.S. 2014. Zootaxa 3852: 373-381.

3.	Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)

4.	How to Know the True Bugs Slater, James A., and Baranowski, Richard M. 1978. Wm. C. Brown Company.

Contributed by tom murray on 1 August, 2005 - 10:07pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, Mike Quinn, v belov, onegunah
Last updated 9 August, 2023 - 4:49pm

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