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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) » Mirinae » Stenodemini » Porpomiris » Porpomiris curtulus

Species Porpomiris curtulus

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Range · Habitat · Food · 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 Mirinae
Tribe Stenodemini
Genus Porpomiris
Species curtulus (Porpomiris curtulus)
Explanation of Names
Porpomiris curtulus (Reuter 1909)
Size
5.0‒5.5 mm(1)
Range
MA‒ON‒ND south to NC‒KS; LA, CO‒UT(1)
Habitat
coastal(2)
Food
hosts: Panicum spp.(1)
Works Cited
1.Porpomiris curtulus (Reuter) (Hemiptera: Miridae), a plant bug specialist on Switchgrass (Panicum virgatum L.; Poaceae)...
Wheeler A.G. Jr., Schwartz M.D. 2018. Proc. Ent Soc. Wash. 120: 926‒937.
2.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 WonGun Kim on 20 November, 2012 - 8:30pm
Additional contributions by Bbarnd, v belov
Last updated 24 August, 2023 - 3:42pm

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