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For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada

Species Atractotomus rubidus

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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 Nasocorini
Genus Atractotomus
Species rubidus (Atractotomus rubidus)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Atractotomus rubidus (Uhler)
Orig. Comb: Sthenarus rubidus Uhler 1895
Syn: Lepidopsallus rubidus (Uhler)
Range
widely dist. (CA-FL-QC-AB) - Map (1)(2), most records betw. upper Miss. R. and Great Lakes
Food
Salix (1)
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)