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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 » Orthotylus » Orthotylus albocostatus

Species Orthotylus albocostatus

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · 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 Orthotylinae
Tribe Orthotylini
Genus Orthotylus
Species albocostatus (Orthotylus albocostatus)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Orthotylus albocostatus: Van Duzee, 1918
Melanotrichus albocostatus (Van Duzee): Knight, 1927
Orthotylus (Melanotrichus) albocostatus (Van Duzee): Carvalho, 1958
Melanotrichus albocostatus (Van Duzee): Henry and Froeschner, 1988
The Melanotrichus group, including this species, has gone back and forth between recognition as a genus and inclusion in Orthotylus. The consensus at the moment seems to be that it's part of Orthotylus.
Range
From B.C. and Sask. south to CA, AZ, and CO(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.
Contributed by v belov on 18 March, 2012 - 12:46am
Additional contributions by jbotz
Last updated 12 April, 2019 - 2:57pm

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