Species Psallus haematodes

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · Remarks · Internet References · Works Cited

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 Phylina

Genus Psallus

Species haematodes (Psallus haematodes)

Explanation of Names

Psallus haematodes (Gmelin 1790)

Size

3-3.8 mm(1)

Identification

In e. Asian specimens, the 1st antennomere yellow with 2 brown spots at bases of spines in medial part. Dorsum in anterior part dirty yellow or whitish yellow, usually more or less red posteriorly; venter pale or abdomen partly brown. Femora and tibiae yellow, whitish or sligthly reddish, with more or less large black spots. Cuneus entirely white, without any red spots. Coloration from pale yellowish with few reddish spots to dominantly light red.(1)

Range

native to the Palaearctic (throughout Europe and Siberia), adventive in our area (BC)(2)

Season

mid-July to early September(1)

Food

Salix spp. appear to be main hosts in Europe; reported to prey on small arthropods in Sweden(2)

Remarks

earliest NA record: BC 1970(3)

Internet References

Images of live and pinned adults & nymphs: AMNH specimens, Danmarks Blomstertæger, British Bugs(4)

Works Cited

1.	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.

2.	A Synthesis of the Holarctic Miridae (Heteroptera): Distribution, Biology, and Origin, with Emphasis on North America A. G., Jr. Wheeler & Thomas J. Henry. 1992. Entomological Society of America.

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

4.	Bantock T., Botting J. (2010‒) British Bugs, an online identification guide to UK Hemiptera

Contributed by WonGun Kim on 23 August, 2009 - 4:48pm
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 28 January, 2012 - 5:23pm

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