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Genus Dictyla

Dictyla ehrethiae (Gibson) - Dictyla ehrethiae

Tingid on Vipers Bugloss (Echium vulgare) - Dictyla echii

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 Dictyla

Explanation of Names

Dictyla Stål 1874

Numbers

4 spp. (of which one adventive) in our area(1), 80 spp. total(2)

Range

most of the world; in our area, w. NA + adventive in e. Canada & ne. US(2)(3)

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

Contributed by v belov on 27 July, 2009 - 10:19pm
Last updated 28 September, 2013 - 2:55pm

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