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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) » Cylapinae » Fulvius » Fulvius subnitens

Species Fulvius subnitens

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Works Cited
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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 Cylapinae
Genus Fulvius
Species subnitens (Fulvius subnitens)
Explanation of Names
Fulvius subnitens Poppius, 1909
Size
3.35-3.75 mm (1)
Identification
Distinguished by the basally brown A2 with the distal one half to two thirds pale or white, the uniformly dark brown scutellum, and the dark brown hemelytron, including the uniformly dark brown cuneus, with the base of the corium, the base and apex of clavus, and a large spot at the apex of the corium pale or white (the latter often tinged with orange). (1)
Range
e.TX-GA-SC (BG data), VA (1)
New Guinea, Samoa, Seychelles Islands, Solomon Islands, Taiwan, and Tanzania (1)
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 Mike Quinn
Last updated 26 April, 2023 - 3:10pm

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