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Genus Dicyphus

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 Bryocorinae

Tribe Dicyphini

Genus Dicyphus

Explanation of Names

Dicyphus Fieber 1858

Numbers

25 spp. in our area(1), 60 total(2)

Identification

body slender, elongate, variably light greenish to grayish to reddish-brown; forewings parallel-sided, at least 3 times longer than wide, and with dark markings at lateral tip of corium and lateral tip of cuneus; pronotum tapered, lateral margins slightly concave, posterior margin as wide as abdomen and at least 2 times wider than anterior margin of pronotum, which is same width as head; antennae as long as or slightly shorter than length of forewing, each antennal segment with pale ring (annulus) at joint; eyes positioned laterally, bulging beyond sides of head; distance between eyes as great or greater than width of eye; black spot often present on top of head between eyes

Range

holarctic, with some representation in so. Asia & tropical Africa; in our area, most of the US and so. Canada(2) (map)

Habitat

woodlands

Food

various plants; D. agilis and D. famelicus feed on raspberry (Rubus spp.)(3)(4)

Works Cited

1.	American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico Ross H. Arnett. 2000. CRC Press.

2.	Schuh, R.T. 2002-2013. On-line Systematic Catalog of Plant Bugs (Insecta: Heteroptera: Miridae).

3.	Hemiptera Heteroptera from Newfoundland, collected by the Swedish-Finnish Expedition of 1949–1951 Lindberg H. 1958. Acta Zoologica Fennica 96: 1–25.

4.	An annotated list of the Miridae of West Virginia (Hemiptera-Heteroptera) A.G. Wheeler Jr., T.J. Henry, T.L. Mason Jr. 1983. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 109:127–159.

Contributed by Robin McLeod on 2 February, 2007 - 7:17am
Additional contributions by v belov, onegunah
Last updated 18 February, 2015 - 8:31am

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