Species Fulvius anthocoroides

Classification · Explanation of Names · Identification · Range · Remarks · Works Cited

Miridae sp. - Fulvius? - Fulvius anthocoroides

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 Cylapinae

Genus Fulvius

Species anthocoroides (Fulvius anthocoroides)

Explanation of Names

Fulvius anthocoroides (Reuter 1875)

Identification

A2 mostly brown with at least the distal ⅓ pale, scutellum uniformly dark brown, hemelytron dark brown with the basal third of the corium and clavus pale and a large white spot (often tinged with orange) at the apex of the corium bordering the uniformly dark cuneus(1)

Range

circumtropical; in our area, FL―LA(1)

Remarks

Probably introduced

Works Cited

1.	First North American record of the Old World Cylapine Fulvius subnitens Poppius (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae) from Virginia, Thomas J. Henry, Richard L. Hoffman and Andrzej Wolski. 2011. Entomological Society of Washington.

Contributed by WonGun Kim on 17 August, 2011 - 5:19am
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, v belov
Last updated 3 August, 2023 - 7:02am

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