Apolygus lucorum
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in Deutsch. (July 2019) Click [show] for important translation instructions.
|
| Apolygus lucorum | |
|---|---|
| File:Apolygus lucorum (Miridae) - (imago), Elst (Gld), the Netherlands.jpg | |
| Apolygus lucorum Elst (Gld), the Netherlands | |
Scientific classification 
| |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hemiptera |
| Suborder: | Heteroptera |
| Family: | Miridae |
| Genus: | Apolygus |
| Species: | A. lucorum
|
| Binomial name | |
| Apolygus lucorum Meyer-Dür, 1843
| |
_-_(imago),_Elst_(Gld),_the_Netherlands.jpg){kind=link}
Apolygus lucorum is a species of true bug in the Miridae family. It can be found everywhere in Europe except for Albania, Bulgaria, Iceland, Malta, and Portugal.[1] and much of the Mediterranean basin, then east across the Palearctic to China and Japan. [2]
Description
[edit | edit source]Adults are 5–6 millimetres (0.20–0.24 in) long, and are yellowish-green in colour.[3]
Biology
[edit | edit source]Apolygus lucorum feeds on a range of plants including tansy, nettle, Eupatorium, foxglove, scrub thistle (Cirsium), willowherb (Epilobium) and particularly mugwort piercing the plant tissues and feeding on the sap. Adults are found from July to October.
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ Tadeusz Jaczewski with I.M Kerzhner 1964 Order Hemiptera (Heteroptera). In Bei-Bienko, G. Ya. (ed.), Keys to the insects of the European USSR 1: 655-845 1964.
- ^ Description
Lua error in Module:Taxonbar at line 165: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).