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Species Hyaliodes harti - Hart's Hyaline Plant Bug

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 Hyaliodini

Genus Hyaliodes

Species harti (Hart's Hyaline Plant Bug)

Explanation of Names

Hyaliodes harti Knight, 1941

Size

Length 5.0 – 5.3 mm

Identification

Adults are elongate, hyaline or glassy in appearance, with long slender legs and large reddish eyes.

Kelton (1) key features: Collar and calli black. Scutellum black at base. Apical margin of corium red

Knight (2) other features: Median pronotal line always light. Antennae, first segment, bright red. Distinguished from vitripennis by the longer first antennal segment (see See Also section below)

Range

e. NA, w. strays to BC (OK-NC-ME-BC) - Map (3)(4)

Habitat

Collected on a vast variety of trees: apple, pear, peach, raspberry, plum, grape, etc.

Season

mostly: Jun-Aug.

Food

Predaceous on mites, aphids, psyllids, and other small arthropods.

See Also

Hyaliodes vitripennis has green collar, black apical margin of corium, and shorter first antennal segment

Print References

Kelton, L.A. 1983. Plant Bugs on Fruit Crops in Canada. Heteroptera: Miridae. (1)

Knight, H.H. 1941. The Plant Bugs, or Miridae, of Illinois. (2)

Works Cited

1.	Plant Bugs on Fruit Crops in Canada. Heteroptera: Miridae. Kelton L. A. 1983.

2.	The Plant Bugs, or Miridae, of Illinois Knight, Harry, H. 1941. State of illinois.

3.	Catalog of the Heteroptera, or True Bugs of Canada and the Continental United States Thomas J. Henry, Richard C. Froeschner. 1988. Brill Academic Publishers.

4.	Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)

Contributed by Claude Pilon on 3 March, 2007 - 5:03pm
Additional contributions by Stephen_WV, Robin McLeod, Mike Quinn
Last updated 10 April, 2024 - 9:40pm

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