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Species Hyaliodes vitripennis

Tupiocoris sp. - Hyaliodes vitripennis Tupiocoris sp. - Hyaliodes vitripennis Hyaliodes vitripennis Hyaliodes vitripennis? - Hyaliodes vitripennis Hyaliodes vitripennis? - Hyaliodes vitripennis plant bug - Hyaliodes vitripennis plant bug - Hyaliodes vitripennis Hyaliodes vitripennis - male
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 vitripennis (Hyaliodes vitripennis)
Explanation of Names
Hyaliodes vitripennis (Say 1832)
Size
4.6-4.9 mm(1)
Identification
Collar and calli pale green. Scutellum mostly pale green. Apical margin of corium black. H. harti has black collar, red apical margin of corium, and longer first antennomere(1)
Range
AK-NS south to WA-CO-LA(2)(3)
Habitat
taken from apple, pear, plum, grape, elm, and oak
Season
Nymphs are first active in early June and most numerous in late July, adults appear in late July to early August.
Food
Adults and nymphs feed on all stages of phytophagous mites, but are probably most effective as predators of eggs of the Fruit Tree Red Spider Mite (Panonychus ulmi).
Adults are also phytophagous, piercing leaf veins and imbibing sap.
Life Cycle
Overwinters as eggs, which is deposited singly just under the bark on small twigs. Two to six eggs may be found at one site. Probably univoltine.
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Internet References
Fact sheet (Hagley 1998)