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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 » Stenotus » Two-spotted Grass Bug (Stenotus binotatus)

Species Stenotus binotatus - Two-spotted Grass Bug

Two-spotted Grass Bug - Stenotus binotatus

Two-spotted Grass Bug (Stenotus binotatus)? - Stenotus binotatus

Stenotus binotatus? - Stenotus binotatus

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 Stenotus

Species binotatus (Two-spotted Grass Bug)

Explanation of Names

Stenotus binotatus (Fabricius 1794)

Size

6-7.5 mm

Identification

overall light greenish or yellowish; front of head black, top of head green; pronotum with two large black spots shaped like elongated semicircles with a straight edge anteriorly; each hemelytron with two oblique black streaks, the more distal streak extending to inner angle of cuneus; scutellum unmarked, bordered laterally by black, and usually brighter than pronotum or hemelytra; cuneus unmarked; membranous tips of hemelytra blackish, giving the bug a "black-tailed" appearance

Range

adventive and widespread in NA(1) BC-OR to NS-GA - Map (2)(3), abscent from Gulf and s. Atlantic plains, native to the Palaearctic(4)

Habitat

fields, meadows

Remarks

earliest NA record: MA, pre-1878(1)

Works Cited

1.	Alien true bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) in Canada: composition and adaptations Scudder G.G.E., Foottit R.G. 2006. Can. Entomol. 138: 24-51.

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)

4.	Keys to the insects of the Far East of the USSR, Vol. 2. Homoptera and Heteroptera Lehr, P. A., ed. 1988. Leningrad, Nauka Publishing House.

Contributed by Robin McLeod on 26 August, 2005 - 9:49pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Mike Quinn, v belov, onegunah
Last updated 7 May, 2025 - 2:24pm

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