Species Orius vicinus

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Size · Range · Remarks · 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 Cimicoidea

Family Anthocoridae (Minute Pirate Bugs)

Tribe Oriini

Genus Orius

Species vicinus (Orius vicinus)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

previously misidentified as O. minutus(1) (the two are difficult to tell apart)

Explanation of Names

Orius vicinus (Ribaut 1923)

Size

2.2-2.4 mm

Range

established in the Pacific Northwest (sw.BC to OR)(2), native to, and widespread across the Palaearctic(3), adventive in NA(4)

Remarks

earliest NA record: WA 1930(5)

Works Cited

1.	Orius (Heterorius) vicinus (Ribaut) (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Anthocoridae) in western North America, a correction of the past Lewis, T.M. and J.D. Lattin. 2010. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 112(1):69-80. .

2.	The non-indigenous Lyctocoridae and Anthocoridae (Hemiptera : Heteroptera : Cimicoidea) of America North of Mexico Lattin J.D. 2007. Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. 109: 366‒376.

3.	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.

4.	The Insects and Arachnids of Canada Part 4: The Anthocoridae of Canada and Alaska Leonard A. Kelton. 1978. Supply and Services Canada.

5.	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 Tim Loh on 13 September, 2010 - 5:58pm
Additional contributions by Bbarnd, Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 22 February, 2023 - 10:59am

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