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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 » Neurocolpus » mexicanus group (Neurocolpus mexicanus group) » Neurocolpus arizonae

Species Neurocolpus arizonae

Classification · Other Common Names · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Food · Print References · Works Cited

Male, Neurocolpus arizonae? - Neurocolpus arizonae - male

Neurocolpus arizonae ? - Neurocolpus arizonae

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 Neurocolpus

No Taxon (mexicanus group)

Species arizonae (Neurocolpus arizonae)

Other Common Names

Banded-tibial Neurocolpus

Explanation of Names

Neurocolpus arizonae Knight, 1934

Size

5.67-6.20 mm (male); 6.17-6.58 mm (female) (1)

Identification

Distinguished from all other species by (1):

1) short rostrum (not reaching beyond mesocoxae);

2) short A1 (< A2/2);

3) pale median stripe on head and pronotum; and

4) dark bands on tibiae.

Dets. Jason Botz

Range

sw US (s.CA to c.&s.TX, CO-UT) and Mex. - Map (1)(2)(3), mostly s.CA to Brazos R., TX

Food

Mesquite (Prosopis spp.)

Print References

Knight, H.H. (1934). Neurocolpus Reuter: key with five new species (Hemiptera, Miridae). Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society 29: 162-167.

Works Cited

1.	Genus Neurocolpus Reuter (Heteroptera: Miridae): Taxonomy, economic implications, hosts and phylogenenetic review Henry, Thomas J. and Kim, K.C. 1984. American Entomological Society.

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.	Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)

Contributed by WonGun Kim on 29 May, 2009 - 8:28pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn
Last updated 25 April, 2025 - 12:14pm

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