Species Lidopus heidemanni

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

Lidopus heidemanni Gibson - Lidopus heidemanni

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 Isometopinae (Jumping Tree Bugs)

Genus Lidopus

Species heidemanni (Lidopus heidemanni)

Explanation of Names

Lidopus heidemanni E. Gibson, 1917

Patronym for Otto Heidemann

Numbers

1 sp. n. of Mex. (1)

Size

1.9-2.5mm (Henry 1980)

Identification

easily be recognized from all others of the family by its extremely convex pronotum and color pattern of the elytra. (Gibson 1917)

Range

se. US (TX-FL-NC-IL) / s. in Mex. to Jalisco and Veracruz - Map (Henry 1980)(2)

It is known from Florida and North Carolina, west to Illinois and Texas. It probably occurs in other midwestern states and most in between. (Thomas Henry, pers. comm. to MAQ)

Food

6 spmns coll'ed on 2 spp. of oaks (Quercus spp.) in CenTex (3)

Remarks

Described from seven females and three males collected by Messers E. A. Schwarz and H. S. Barber at San Diego [Duval and Jim Wells counties] and Brownsville, [Cameron Co.] Texas, and now in the collection of the U. S. National Museum.

Print References

Gibson, E.H. 1917. The family Isometopidae Fieb. as represented in North America (Heteroptera). Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society 12: 73-77. (Full Text)

Henry, T.J. 1980. Review of Lidopus Gibson and Wetmorea McAtee & Malloch, descriptions of three new genera and two new species, and key to New World genera (Hemiptera: Miridae: Isometopidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 82(2): 178-194. (Full Text)

Internet References

Type Info - Smithsonian

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)

3.	Abundance and distribution of potential arthropod prey species in a typical Golden-cheeked Warbler habitat. Quinn, M.A. 2000. Unpublished Thesis. Texas A&M University, College Station. ix + 182 pp.

Contributed by Mike Quinn on 14 November, 2009 - 9:34am
Last updated 27 April, 2023 - 1:24pm

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