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Genus Teleonemia

Unknown Nymph - Teleonemia Lace bug larva - Teleonemia Teleonemia scrupulosa bug - Teleonemia scrupulosa Tingid - Teleonemia scrupulosa Teleonemia scrupulosa? - Teleonemia scrupulosa should be Teleonemia scrupulosa - Teleonemia Aradus ? - Teleonemia nigrina
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 Tingidae (Lace Bugs)
Subfamily Tinginae
Tribe Tingini
Genus Teleonemia
Explanation of Names
Teleonemia Costa 1864
Numbers
14 spp. in our area(1), 85 spp. total(2)
Range
most diverse in the Neotropics; in our area, north to BC-KS-NJ(3)(1)
Print References
Drake C. (1918) The North American species of Teleonemia occurring north of Mexico. Ohio J. Sci. 18: 323-332 (4)
Note: still a helpful paper/key, though it only treats 8 spp. of our fauna; Drake & Van Duzee later described 5 spp., all from AZ and/or CA, and the Mesoamerican T. cylindricornis Champion was found in IL & MS(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.Guilbert E. (2013) Lace bugs database
3.Checklist of the Hemiptera of Canada and Alaska
Maw, H.E.L., R.G. Foottit, K.G.A. Hamilton and G.G.E. Scudder. 2000. NRC Research Press.
4.The North American species of Teleonemia occurring north of Mexico.
Drake, C. 1918. Ohio Journal of Science 18(8): 323-332.