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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) » Mirinae » Mirini » Tropidosteptes » Oak Catkin Mirid (Tropidosteptes quercicola)
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Plant Bug - Tropidosteptes quercicola
Copyright © 2007 Graham Montgomery

Plant Bug - Tropidosteptes quercicola
Houston, Harris County, Texas, USA
March 21, 2007
High up in an oak tree.
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Contributed by Graham Montgomery on 21 March, 2007 - 8:34pm
Last updated 25 July, 2011 - 2:08pm

Moved based on
Moved based on .

Moved from Knightomiris distinctus.
… WonGun Kim, 25 July, 2011 - 2:08pm login or register to post comments

prob. Knightomiris distinctus (Knight 1917) - det. M.D. Schwartz
Moved tentatively from Mirini.
… v belov, 5 November, 2010 - 1:06pm login or register to post comments

I found another like this one...
...

… Ron M., 20 April, 2010 - 10:16am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Plant Bugs.
… john and jane balaban, 15 December, 2008 - 8:32pm login or register to post comments

I suspect it to be a Henrylygus species...
^^
… WonGun Kim, 10 December, 2008 - 1:52am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Tarnished Plant Bug.
… Graham Montgomery, 17 November, 2008 - 5:53pm login or register to post comments

It may not be Lygus species...
It definitely has legs with a different pattern from other Lygus bugs. It is better to move it to the tribe Mirini...
… WonGun Kim, 17 November, 2008 - 2:20am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Plant Bugs.
… Graham Montgomery, 7 June, 2007 - 8:31am login or register to post comments

Lygus
Lygus; I think lineolaris--Tarnished Plant Bug
… Rebecca Clayton, 6 June, 2007 - 3:26pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks for the
many mirid ID's.
… Graham Montgomery, 7 June, 2007 - 8:31am login or register to post comments

Family Miridae.
Family Miridae.
… Brad Barnd, 21 March, 2007 - 9:52pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks
Figures that I get the comon names mixed up. Mirid=Plant bug, not seed bug! Thanks for the correction.
… Graham Montgomery, 22 March, 2007 - 7:58am login or register to post comments

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