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Species Capsus ater

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 Mirini

Genus Capsus

Species ater (Capsus ater)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Capsus ater (Linnaeus)

Orig. Comb: Cimex ater Linnaeus 1758

Explanation of Names

ater - Latin for 'black' (1)

Numbers

2 Nearctic spp., both adventive (2)

Range

native to Europe, adventive and widespread in NA(3)(2)

BG records currently restricted to ne US (2015)

Season

May-July (BG data)

Remarks

earliest NA record: ME 1826(3)

Works Cited

1.	Dictionary of Word Roots and Combining Forms Donald J. Borror. 1960. Mayfield Publishing Company.

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.

3.	Alien true bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) in Canada: composition and adaptations Scudder G.G.E., Foottit R.G. 2006. Can. Entomol. 138: 24-51.

Contributed by tom murray on 8 December, 2006 - 9:54am
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Mike Quinn, v belov, onegunah
Last updated 30 July, 2015 - 3:32am

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