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For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada

Genus Deraeocoris

Deraeocoris nebulosus Powdery white nymph - Deraeocoris Deraeocoris sp? - Deraeocoris unknown insect - Deraeocoris Deraeocoris Plant Bug - Deraeocoris Meadow Loop Trail Mirid - Deraeocoris Mirid Bug - Deraeocoris red and black bug - Deraeocoris histrio
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 Deraeocorinae
Tribe Deraeocorini
Genus Deraeocoris
Explanation of Names
Deraeocoris Kirschbaum 1856
'collared bug'(1)
Numbers
64 spp. in our area, >200 total(2)
Identification
see (3)
Remarks
Some species are used as pest controls
Works Cited
1.Composition of scientific words
Brown R.W. 1956. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC. 882 pp.
2.Schuh, R.T. 2002-2013. On-line Systematic Catalog of Plant Bugs (Insecta: Heteroptera: Miridae).
3.Monograph of the North American species of Deraeocoris (Heteroptera, Miridae)
Knight H.H. 1921. U. Minn. Agric. Exp. Sta. Tech. Bull. 1: 210 pp.