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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 » Lace Bugs (Tingidae)

Family Tingidae - Lace Bugs

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Food · Life Cycle · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Lantana Lace Bug - Teleonemia scrupulosa

Andromeda lacebug? - Stephanitis takeyai

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 Tingidae (Lace Bugs)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Tingitidae

Explanation of Names

Tingidae LaPorte 1832

Numbers

~165 spp. in 24 genera in our area (all but one in the Tinginae)(1), ~2,350 spp. in >280 genera worldwide(2) arranged in 3 subfamilies(3); at least two of the genera recorded in NA represent adventive European spp. (images: a, b)

Size

3-5 mm (NA)(1), 2-8+ mm worldwide(4)

Identification

Adults have a sculptured lacelike pattern of the dorsum; nymphs are usually spiny and black. Other important characters (5):

ocelli absent

beak and antennae four-jointed

scutellum absent or much reduced, replaced by the angular hind portions of the pronotum

tarsi two-jointed

Keys to FL spp. in(6)

excellent habitus photos of 60 spp.(7), including 15 spp. not yet in the guide

Range

worldwide and throughout NA(1)

Food

Feed mainly on leaves of trees and shrubs, causing yellow spotting and sometimes browning and death of the leaves(8)

Life Cycle

Eggs usually laid on the underside of leaves near veins(1) in the domatia(9)

Print References

(10)(11)(12) (Online here)

Bailey NS. 1951. The Tingoidea of New England and their biology. Entomologica Americana 31 (N.S.): 1-140.

Bailey NS. 1960. Additions to the bioecology of the New England Tingidae and Piesmidae (Heteroptera). Psyche 66: 63-69.

Blatchley WS. 1926. Heteroptera or True Bugs of Eastern North America, with Especial Reference to Faunas of Indiana and Florida. Nature Publishing Co., Indianapolis. 1116 pp.

Comstock JH. 1880. The hawthorn tingis (Corythucha arcuata, Say, var.), order Hemiptera; family Tingidae. U.S.D.A. Report of the Entomologist for 1879: 221-222.

Drake CJ, Ruhoff FA. 1965. Lacebugs of the World (Hemiptera: Tingidae). U.S. Natural History Museum Bulletin 243: 1-634.

Feldman AE, Bailey NS. 1953. The taxonomic value of the ovipositor in the New England species of the genus Corythucha Stål (Hemiptera: Tingidae). Psyche 59: 96-104.

Gibson EH. 1918. The genus Corythucha Stål (Tingidae: Heteroptera). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 44: 60-104.

Sailer RI. 1945. The bite of a lacebug, Corythucha cydoniae (Fitch). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 18: 1.

Scott HE. 1960. Lace bugs and their control. North Carolina Agricultural Extension Service Folder 177 (n.p.).

Internet References

Key to Tingidae of Florida (PDF)

Works Cited

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

2.	Guilbert E. (2013) Lace bugs database

3.	Phylogeny of Cantacaderinae (Het.: Tingidae) revisited after the description of a new genus and new species from New Caledonia Guilbert E. 2012. Eur. J. Entomol. 109: 111-116.

4.	Biodiversity of the Heteroptera Henry T.J. 2009. In: Foottit R.G., Adler P.H., eds. Insect biodiversity: Science and society. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell: 223−263.

5.	An Introduction to Entomology John Henry Comstock. 1933. The Comstock publishing Co.

6.	Key to Tingidae of Florida, by A. Bisson, S. Clark, M. Lehnert, R. Stein

7.	Photo gallery of the Spencer Entomological Collection

8.	Borror and DeLong's Introduction to the Study of Insects Norman F. Johnson, Charles A. Triplehorn. 2004. Brooks Cole.

9.	Hidden Company that Trees Keep: Life from Treetops to Root Tips James B. Nardi. 2023. Princeton University Press.

10.	The Tingitoidea of Ohio (Ohio Biological Survey Bulletin: volume 2 number 4-Bulletin 8) Osborn, Herbert, and Drake, Carl John. 1916. Ohio State University.

11.	Tingoidea of Oklahoma (Hemiptera) Drew W.A., Arnold D.C. 1977. Proc. Oklahoma Acad. Sci. 57: 29-31.

12.	Encyclopedia of Entomology, 2nd ed Capinera J.L., ed. 2008. Springer, lxiii+4346 pp. (4 vols.).

Contributed by Troy Bartlett on 16 February, 2004 - 12:32pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, Beatriz Moisset, Mike Quinn, Boris Bueche, v belov, Marci Hess
Last updated 23 September, 2023 - 11:53am

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