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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » True Bugs (Heteroptera) » Cimicomorpha » Cimicoidea » Minute Pirate Bugs (Anthocoridae) » Oriini » Orius » Orius insidiosus
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Minute Pirate Bug - Orius insidiosus
Copyright © 2010 G.K. Gerber

Minute Pirate Bug - Orius insidiosus
Harrisonburg, Rockingham County, Virginia, USA
August 17, 2010
Size: ~2 mm
Found feeding on a Mint plant in a garden. Identified to Family via BugGuide images and comments. Looks most like Orius insidiosus to me.

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Contributed by G.K. Gerber on 18 August, 2010 - 12:34am
Last updated 13 September, 2010 - 5:26pm

ID confirmed
using Kelton (1978)
… Tim Loh, 13 September, 2010 - 5:26pm login or register to post comments

 
Thank you
very much Tim. This little guy was not cooperative at all for his picture, kept hiding between the stems and the lighting was awful.
… G.K. Gerber, 13 September, 2010 - 8:29pm login or register to post comments

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