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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) » Orthotylinae » Ceratocapsini » Ceratocapsus » Ceratocapsus apicalis

Species Ceratocapsus apicalis

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Remarks · Print References · Works Cited
Ceratocapsus - Ceratocapsus apicalis Bug - Ceratocapsus apicalis Plant bug from AZ (4) 10.07.01 - Ceratocapsus apicalis - male possible Ceratocapsus apicalis - Ceratocapsus apicalis Ceratocapsus apicalis? - Ceratocapsus apicalis Ceratocapsus apicalis Ceratocapsus - Ceratocapsus apicalis - male Ceratocapsus apicalis
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 Orthotylinae
Tribe Ceratocapsini
Genus Ceratocapsus
Species apicalis (Ceratocapsus apicalis)
Explanation of Names
Ceratocapsus apicalis Knight, 1925
Numbers
*Large* genus (1)
Identification
Allied to drakei Knight, but size smaller, distinguished by finer simple pubescence and having more of the silvery sericeous scale-like pubescence; also by the black pronotum and scutellum., distinctly blackish apical half of membrane, and fuscous cloud at inner apical angles of corium. (Knight, 1925)
Range
sw US (s.CA-c.TX-SD-CO) - Map (1)(2), mostly s.CA-c.TX-KS-UT
Remarks
Type Locality: Fabens, El Paso Co., Texas (1)
Print References
Knight, H.H. (1925) Descriptions of thirty new species and two new genera of North American Miridae (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society 20: 33-58. (Full PDF)
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.Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
Contributed by v belov on 7 July, 2009 - 8:59am
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, onegunah
Last updated 28 June, 2024 - 6:48pm

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