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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » True Bugs (Heteroptera) » Cimicomorpha » Miroidea » Plant Bugs (Miridae) » Orthotylinae » Orthotylini » Malacocoris » Delicate Apple-capsid (Malacocoris chlorizans)

Species Malacocoris chlorizans - Delicate Apple-capsid

Classification · Range · Food · Remarks · Works Cited

Malacocoris chlorizans? - Malacocoris chlorizans

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 Orthotylinae

Tribe Orthotylini

Genus Malacocoris

Species chlorizans (Delicate Apple-capsid)

Range

native to w. Palaearctic(1), introduced and established in the Pacific Northwest (BC-WA); first collected in 1959(2)

Food

zoophytophagous on various hosts, incl. maple, alder, hazel, basswood, nettle(1), and ash; reported as a beneficial agent able to control outbreaks of small plant sucking arthropods, such as mites, aphids, whiteflies, and mealybugs (Guidone et al. 2008)

Remarks

"The occurrence of M. chlorizans in ornamental situations from Seattle strongly suggests an introduction through the importation of nursery stock."(2)

Works Cited

1.	Schuh, R.T. 2002-2013. On-line Systematic Catalog of Plant Bugs (Insecta: Heteroptera: Miridae).

2.	Newly recognized Holarctic and introduced plant bugs in North America (Heteroptera: Miridae) M.D. Schwartz & G.G.E. Scudder. 1998. The Canadian Entomologist 130(3): 267-283.

Contributed by v belov on 4 November, 2010 - 11:17am
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Kevin Hall, onegunah
Last updated 27 July, 2020 - 6:26pm

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