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Genus Gargaphia

host is nightshade; G solani? - Gargaphia solani

Linden Lace Bug (Gargaphia tiliae)? on a sunflower - Gargaphia solani

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 Tingidae (Lace Bugs)

Subfamily Tinginae

Tribe Tingini

Genus Gargaphia

Explanation of Names

Gargaphia Stål 1862

apparently from Greek mythology (see Naias Gargathie)

Numbers

15 spp. in our area(1), 66 spp. total(2)

Size

3-4 mm or somewhat larger(3)

Identification

can be separated by the interrupted rostral sulcus between the meso- and metasternum by a prominent transverse sinuous carina(3)

last revised by Gibson (1890)(4)

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.	Guilbert E. (2013) Lace bugs database

3.	The Tingitoidea of Ohio (Ohio Biological Survey Bulletin: volume 2 number 4-Bulletin 8) Osborn, Herbert, and Drake, Carl John. 1916. Ohio State University.

4.	The Genus Gargaphia Stål (Tingidae; Heteroptera) Edmund H. Gibson. 1890. Transactions of the American Entomological Society .

Contributed by Troy Bartlett on 14 March, 2004 - 8:35pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, Beatriz Moisset, Mike Quinn, Maury Heiman, v belov
Last updated 8 April, 2023 - 2:12pm

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