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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) » Phylinae » Phylini » Oncotylina » Plagiognathus

Genus Plagiognathus

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Food · Life Cycle · Works Cited
Is this in this family? Genus Lygus - Lygus bugs - Plagiognathus Plant Bug - Plagiognathus bug - Plagiognathus albatus ambush bug (?) on trapped fly - Plagiognathus Dark mirid - Plagiognathus Unidentified Plant Bug - Plagiognathus Dark Plant Bug - Plagiognathus Which Mirid might this be? - Plagiognathus obscurus
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 Phylinae
Tribe Phylini
Subtribe Oncotylina
Genus Plagiognathus
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
revised in (1); 25 spp. transferred to or from Plagiognathus
Microphylellus Reuter 1909 • Gerhardiella Poppius 1911 • Chaetophylidea Knight 1968
Explanation of Names
Plagiognathus Fieber 1858
Numbers
~90 spp. (of which P. arbustorum, P. chrysanthemi, P. vitellinus adventive) in our area, >120 total(1)
Size
2.3―5.8 mm
Identification
Coloration of the antennae, legs, and hemelytra is extremely useful, though some spp. show substantial variation(1)
Range
Holarctic; throughout so. Canada & the US; greatest diversity north of 40°N
Food
Host plants include many coniferous and broad-leaved trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants (Asteraceae, Betulaceae, Fabaceae, Rosaceae, Salicaceae, etc.); individual species often rather host-specific.
Life Cycle
most spp. univoltine, a few bivoltine
Works Cited
1.Revision of New World Plagiognathus ... and the description of a new genus (Heteroptera, Miridae, Phylinae)
Schuh, R.T. 2001. Bulletin of the AMNH, 266: 1-267.
Contributed by Claude Pilon on 1 March, 2007 - 1:57pm
Additional contributions by Robin McLeod, Mike Quinn, v belov, onegunah
Last updated 11 June, 2025 - 1:09pm

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