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Species Keltonia tuckeri

Plant Bug - Keltonia tuckeri Plant Bug - Keltonia tuckeri Electrified Mirid - Keltonia tuckeri Another Plant Bug? - Keltonia tuckeri Keltonia tuckeri Hopper - Keltonia tuckeri Keltonia tuckeri  - Keltonia tuckeri lateral - Keltonia tuckeri - female
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 Phylinae
Tribe Phylini
Subtribe Keltoniina
Genus Keltonia
Species tuckeri (Keltonia tuckeri)
Other Common Names
Tucker's Mirid
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Keltonia tuckeri (Poppius)
Orig. Comb: Pseudatomoscelis tuckeri Poppius, 1911
Explanation of Names
Elbert S. Tucker was F. H. Snow's student and museum assistant at the University of Kansas during the early years of the last century (Hyder,1953). He was also employed as a special field agent by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and amassed considerable material from Colorado, Kansas, Louisiana and Texas. (Henry and Wheeler, 1979)
Size
3.00-3.40 mm (male)
2.88-3.36 mm (female) (1)
Identification
1) Hemelytral spots coalescing to form a conspurcate brown cloud or solid dark area through middle of corium and apex of clavus;
2) Dorsum dull yellow;
3) Femora pale, with small brown spots; and
4) Cuneus, embolium, and corium with distinct, brown setigerous spots. (1)
Range
e. US to CO / Mex. to Venezuela - Map (1)(2), most common in Texas
Habitat
Composites (Asteraceae) including Ambrosia spp., Chrysopsis villosa, Heterotheca subaxilaris, etc.
Life Cycle
In NC, 3 generations occur in a year. (1)
Remarks
Type Locality: Texas
Print References
Henry TJ, Wheeler Jr AG (1979) Orthotylus translucens: taxonomic status and corrections of published misidentifications. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 81: 60–63. (Full PDF)
Hyder, C.K. 1953. Snow of Kansas. Univ. Kans. Press, Lawrence. 296 pp.
Poppius, B. (1911) Zwei neue nearktische Miriden-Gattungen. Annales de la Societe Entomologique de Belgique 55: 84-87.